October 6 – November 7, 2010

The Chicago Premiere

Scorched

By Wajdi Mouawad
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Directed by Dale Heinen
Featuring: Adam Poss*, Diana Simonzadeh*, Fredric Stone*, Lacy Katherine Campbell, Rinska Carrasco-Prestinary, Nicholas Cimino, Justin James Farley, Carolyn Hoerdemann, and Fawzia Mirza. 

* Denotes member of Actor's Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

Carried aloft by poetic language and evocative imagery, Scorched unfolds in a dreamlike atmosphere connecting the origins of one family in startling and unforgettable ways. A brother and sister raised in Quebec must return to their mother's war-torn country to carry out her last wishes - finding the father and brother they never knew they had.

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March 1 - April 3, 2011

The Midwest Premiere

Yellow Face

By David Henry Hwang
Directed by Steve Scott

A revealing backstage comedy from the Tony Award-winning author of M. Butterfly, this ferociously funny, utterly unreliable memoir chronicles David Henry Hwang's struggle to define racial identity in the mixed-up melting pot of contemporary America. Part fact, part fiction, Yellow Face explores the pitfalls and promise of our "P.C." world.

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Release Date: January, 2011

WASP: White Arab Slovak Pole

By Jamil Khoury
Directed by J. Paul Presault

What does a person named Jamil look like? Swarthy? Mustached? African American? What if your name is Jamil and you’re none of the above? And what if your origins are Arab and Slavic?  Where then do you fall within the slippery slope of whiteness?  Cultural confusion and comedy come together in this playfully provocative piece that takes a hard look at how we identify ourselves and how others perceive us.

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