Silk Road Theatre Project

We are thrilled to announce that The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has awarded Yussef El Guindi its 2009 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for an emerging playwright. The award will be presented April 4 at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville,Ky.

The award recognizes El Guindi’s play, Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat, which we premiered in March 2008.

For more information, visit www.americantheatrecritics.org.

Congratulations are in order for Monica Lopez who is featured in the Sun-Times today in a piece by Hedy Weiss called “Roles of a lifetime: 10 ideal casting choices add realism and enthusiasm to Chicago stages”.

4. MONICA LOPEZ

Monica Lopez is wonderfully fiery, funny and self-assured as Noor, the smart, seductive and conflicted young Arab-American novelist at the center of Silk Road Theater Project’s production of “Our Enemies: Scenes of Love and Combat.” The actress easily goes beyond the play’s zesty politics of identity to get to the universal core of her character. For here is a very attractive, sophisticated, independent-minded woman who makes some ridiculous choices when it comes to men. And Lopez knows precisely how to put on a dress, wrap herself in a sheet and deal with the advances of several very different sorts of seducers.

SEE HER: In “Our Enemies,” running through March 30. Tickets: (866) 811-4111.

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The buzz on Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat has been huge. And now the reviews are coming in.

Chicago Tribune’s Chris Jones says, “…if you’re interested in smart new plays, don’t miss this one. It’s the best piece by the hugely talented El Guindi that I’ve seen. And it’s further evidence that Silk Road has real guts…“ 

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