Silken Veils

Venue: EP Theater
1820 S Halsted Ave, Chicago IL 60608

Showtimes (click to purchase):

Wednesday September 01, 2010 4:00 PM

Thursday September 02, 2010 5:30 PM

Friday September 03, 2010 7:00 PM

Saturday September 04, 2010 8:30 PM

Sunday September 05, 2010 10:00 PM

Description:
Silken Veils weaves the verse of Persian poet Rumi with the visual harmony of marionettes, table-top puppets, live performance and animation. This turbulent, sometimes humorous tale follows Darya, an Iranian born American citizen as she struggles with love in the US while reliving her childhood in Iran during the Revolution of 1979 and the Iran/Iraq war. Nominated as a best new work at Ediburgh Fringe Festival.

Company:
Pantea Production (Stevenson Ranch, California)

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The Playdaters

Venue: Chicago Art District Gallery: Edinburgh Stage
2003 S Halsted Ave, Chicago IL 60608

Showtimes (click to purchase):

Wednesday September 01, 2010 5:30 PM

Thursday September 02, 2010 10:00 PM

Friday September 03, 2010 8:30 PM

Saturday September 04, 2010 5:30 PM

Sunday September 05, 2010 1:00 PM

Description:
Two guys, hundreds of girls, one complicated scoring system. Spencer and Erwin exploit a dating website to play a game of dares and pranks on unsuspecting singles. Spencer eventually falls in love with a one-dimensional character, and Erwin, thwarting Spencer, finds that he can manipulate the world of a romantic comedy in astounding ways.

Company:
The Diversion Theatre formally And Giggles Production (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

The Playdaters was first developed at The University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The Milwaukee Fringe and Chicago Fringe mark its professional debut. This piece was inspired by various blind dates and email exchanges from hopeful singles through a popular online dating website. Online dating can be wonderful fun; it is also a fascinating social experiment that reveals magnitudes about how people approach dating and marriage, particularly in the largely unspoken discrepencies between professional romantic ideals and less-than-sensational reality of circumscribed requirements and eventual concessions in the search for a mate.

Empanada for a Dream

Venue: EP Theatre

Showtimes (click to purchase):

Wednesday September 01, 2010	5:30 PM
Friday September 03, 2010	8:30 PM
Saturday September 04, 2010	10:00 PM

Description:
1990's.The Lower East Side of NYC. The Yankees go from chumps to champs. Koch, Dinkins and Giuliani all wizz by and Hip hop will be born out of poverty. Welcome to the Loaisaida. Consider yourself an outsider, a tourist, a blanquito or just plain 'ol lucky. Either way, it's a trip down empanada memory lane.

Company:
Juan Villa (New York City, New York)

The Fugitives

Venue: Dream Theatre

Showtimes (click to purchase tickets):

Wednesday September 01, 2010	4:00 PM
Thursday September 02, 2010	5:30 PM
Friday September 03, 2010	7:00 PM
Saturday September 04, 2010	8:30 PM
Sunday September 05, 2010	10:00 PM

Description:
A mute Orestes and disturbed Elektra grapple with ghost and memory in a wasteland of dreams. 6000 years on the run. One terrible choice. La Rinascita’s The Fugitives “will make your heart pump harder and the sweat bead on your forehead.”

Company:
La Rinascita (Valparaiso, Indiana)

*Show contains violence

Finding Eleusis

Venue: Chicago Art Department

Showtimes (click to purchase tickets):

Wednesday September 01, 2010	8:30 PM
Thursday September 02, 2010	10:00 PM
Friday September 03, 2010	4:00 PM
Saturday September 04, 2010	5:30 PM
Sunday September 05, 2010	7:00 PM

Description:
In the dark heart of the earth, a single pomegranate seed burns like a star, and a Goddess is born. Terra Mysterium presents this apotheosis in Finding Eleusis, a contemporary drama illuminating the ancient story of Golden-Haired Demeter and her beloved daughter Persephone, Queen of the Underworld.

The Company:
Terra Mysterium (Chicago, IL)

Warnings: Partial Nudity, Depictions of Violence, Drinking

Exhausted Paint: The Death of Van Gogh

Venue: Simone's Bar

Showtimes (Click to purchase tickets):

Wednesday September 01, 2010	5:30 PM
Thursday September 02, 2010	10:00 PM
Friday September 03, 2010	4:00 PM
Saturday September 04, 2010	5:30 PM
Sunday September 05, 2010	8:30 PM

Show Description:

Van Gogh, alienation, wine! What more do you need? A tender play about harshness, “Exhausted Paint” explores Vincent van Gogh’s desperate struggle to mean something in a world that devalues art and its artists, forever asking the question: Why does humanity devalue what humanizes us?


About the Company:

Opium, Fireworks, and Lead Theater formed last year to bring a show to Minneapolis and NYC. As it begins to grow, it will help move innovative work between different theater communities. OFL’s work risks chaos, failure, and destruction by teasing, twisting, and ignoring traditional theatrical structures starting from a belief that catharsis is not fundamentally tied to plot and character. We take on the effective role of the jester, while staying unrepentantly and unremittingly smart.

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