No Matter How Hard We Try
No Matter How Hard We Try
Chicago, IL
Dorota Masłowska’s NO MATTER HOW HARD WE TRY is a scathing satire about the decaying Polish national identity in the aftermath of war, occupation and the commodifying forces of Western capitalism. Three generations of Polish women live together in squalor, escaping their desperate lives through...
Thu, May 12 2016
8:00 PM
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Sat, Jun 25 2016
10:00 PM
Clown Workshop with Victor Quezada-Perez
Clown Workshop with Victor Quezada-Perez
Chicago, IL
Trap Door Theatre’s director from the critically acclaimed production of The Arsonists will come to Chicago in May to teach specialized classes in Clown, Neutral Mask and Body Expression Mask. This Master Class will focus on the techniques rooted in the art of clown, fundamentals which may be app...
Mon, May 23 2016
6:00 PM
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Thu, Jun 2 2016
5:00 PM
How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients
How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients
Chicago, IL
Matei Visniec's How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients is an existentialist drama questioning the relation between personal and political, truth and deceit, real and de-illusional. In this play’s maddening interplay of mirrors and projections, everybody turns into a mental pa...
Wed, Mar 16 2016
8:00 PM
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Sat, Apr 30 2016
10:00 PM
Duchess of Malfi
Duchess of Malfi
Chicago, IL
The newly widowed Duchess of Malfi, secretly marries her steward Antonio for love, defying the commands of her brothers that she remain a widow. Their dark motives; including a need to control her fortunes, an irrational obsession with the purity of their blood, and her twin brother’s incestuous ...
Thu, Jan 14 2016
8:00 PM
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Sat, Feb 27 2016
10:30 PM
The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls
The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls
Chicago, IL
THE TRAP DOOR THEATRE is proud to present...The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls Written by: Meg Miroshnik Directed by: Nicole Wiesner When Annie is sent to Russia to be immersed into her native language and culture, she finds herself thrust into an enchanting post-Soviet world filled with new...
Thu, Oct 15 2015
8:00 PM
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Sat, Dec 5 2015
9:30 PM
The Universal Wolf
The Universal Wolf
Chicago, IL
From the very beginning, with Little Red wringing the birdie’s neck so she can put it in the little gift basket for her grandmother, Joan Schenkar’s The Universal Wolf strikes a different cord in this highly theatrical rendering of the famous Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale. As the play progre...
Thu, Aug 20 2015
8:00 PM
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Sat, Sep 26 2015
9:30 PM
The Woman Before
The Woman Before
Chicago, IL
“You swore that you’d love me forever” Frank doesn’t recognize his teenage sweetheart, Romy, when she turns up at his door 24 years later. She’s come to remind him of a promise he made. Meanwhile, Frank’s son is making a similar promise to his teenage girlfriend. When an accident forces Frank to...
Tue, May 12 2015
8:00 PM
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Sat, Jun 13 2015
9:30 PM
La Bête
La Bête
Chicago, IL
La Bête is a rollicking play, written in rhyming couplets, and inspired by the life of the French comic master, Molière. In the play, Elomire (an anagram for Molière) is the leader of an acting troupe, which according to their patron the Princess has gone stale and listless. She decrees that they...
Thu, Mar 19 2015
8:00 PM
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Sat, May 2 2015
10:00 PM
Cookie Play
Cookie Play
Chicago, IL
In Cookie Play, a mother from the heartland, fearing her son may be the next Edward Snowden, agrees to hold him captive in her basement to save both son and country. What happens next upends everyone’s moral equilibrium in this twisted, off-beat satire. The truth of black sites, whistle-blowing a...
Thu, Jan 8 2015
8:00 PM
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Sat, Feb 21 2015
9:30 PM
John Doe
John Doe
Chicago, IL
Based on the text of Stanislaw Witkiewicz's Madman and the Nun, "John Doe" tragically follows how the beauty in madness is poisoned by the toxic remedy of normalization. Adapted and Directed by Andrzej St. Dziuk, special Guest Artist from the Teatr Witkacy in Zakopane, Poland.
Thu, Sep 25 2014
8:00 PM
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Sat, Oct 25 2014
9:30 PM
