Our mission: The Plagiarists steal from literature, visual art, history, and the culture at large to create new theatre that finds the familiar in the strange, the unique in the commonplace and ultimately enlarges the world.
Year 12
Choice & Consequence
Imagy by Graham Emmons
Image by Graham Emmons
SEASON PASS: DEUX OVER
Created by The Plagiarists
Directed by Nick Freed and Paul Kastner*
September 13th - October 5th, 2019
The Jarvis Square Theater
The Plagiarists bring back their delightfully demented sci-fi spectacular where you choose the course of the story, now with 26% more jokes, action, and agonizing DEATH! Think Be Kind Rewind crossed with Star Tours crossed with Choose Your Own Adventure crossed with a childhood spent watching too many cartoons and eating too much sugary cereal. Only you, the audience, can travel through time and save humanity from destruction. From the depths of the ocean, to all of time and space… and beyond, Season Pass: Deux Over will take you on a one-of-kind adventure every time you strap in!
“The communal experience you will share with your fellow viewers during this production is energizing... “Season Pass: Deux Over” is a playful joyride that I would board again. Especially since whatever the night and whatever the crowd, you’re sure to get a one-of-a-kind adventure.”
(Hayley Osborn, Newcity Stage)
“The Plagiarists group writing dialogue is a combination of Bob's Burgers humor, Shakespearean level alliterative discourse and political satire so subtle you won't realize you've been schooled on the current human experience until you wake up the next morning.”
(Broadway World Chicago)
CAST
Joe Feliciano
Nick Freed
Charlotte Long
Sara McCarthy*
Stephen McClure
Jessica Saxvik
Julia Stemper*
Brittani Yawn*
CREATIVES
Directors: Paul Kastner* & Nick Freed
Stage Manager: Becky Bishop*
Production Managers: Emma Cullimore* & Christina Casano
Scenic Designers: Melissa Schlesinger & Nina D'Angier
Assistant Technical Director: Devonte E. Washington
Costume Designer: Emma Cullimore*
Sound Designer: Sarah Espinoza
Lighting Designer: Charles Blunt
Original Puppet Design: James Snyder and Nina D’Angier
= indicates Plagiarists company member
Photos by Joe Mazza of BraveLux
Check out our interactive trailer! by Stephen McClure:
Image by Graham Emmons
POISON
By Dusty Wilson
Directed by Christina Casano*
February 20th - Saturday, March 14th, 2020
Berger Park Coach House
In 17th century Paris, the rich live in a different world from the poor, and women of all classes live on the whims of men. But poison is the secret lubrication on the gears of Paris society: poison-makers are the favorite artisans of the rich and their laboratories the only places where women from all levels of society meet. Madame Bosse could have been a great doctor, but instead must make poisons to feed her family. Monsieur Reynie, Paris’s chief of police, claims to only want the justice, but their battle of will and wit will expose the truth: that justice is only for the rich and powerful.
"...a lethal mix of comedy and drama..."
"...wickedly satisfying and elegantly badass..."
"...a fantasy of outlaw women..."
Chicago Reader
CAST
MARIE BOSSE - Carina Lastimosa
MARGOT VIGOREAUX - Lynnette Li
MARGUERITE DE POULAILLON - Brittani Yawn*
CATHERINE MONVOISIN - Julia Stemper*
GABRIEL NICHOLAS DE LA REYNIE - Bryan Breau*
FRANCOISE ATHENAIS ROCHECHOUART - Sarah Bruce
U/S BOSSE - Elaina Henderson
U/S VIGOREAUX/ATHENAIS - Cat McKay
U/S POULAILLON/VOISIN - Becca Braun
U/S REYNIE - Stephen McClure*
CREATIVES
Director - Christina Casano*
Associate Director - Ben Kaye
Playwright - Dusty Wilson
Production Manager - Gregory Peters*
Dramaturg - Becky Bishop*
Set Designer - Christina Casano*
Costume Designer - Emma Cullimore*
Costume Design Assistant - Allyson Leisure
Lighting Designer - Michelle Benda
Sound Designer - Isaac Mandel
Violence and Intimacy Design - Lana Whittington
Technical Director - Reagan James
Stage Manager - Lili Bjorklund
*= Plagiarists company member
Images by Joe Mazza of Brave Lux
Check out the trailer by Stephen McClure
Other Events:
Image by Graham Emmons
Your Time Is Up!
The Plagiarists present, Your Time is Up!, a brand new evening of fun and excitement for the game show junkie in all of us. Based on the popular party game Celebrity, Your Time is Up! pits two teams made up of Chicago theatre's finest against each other in a battle of wits, performance, and memory; all in front of a live studio audience! Hosted by our very own gamemaster,Gary Dinkledge, Your Time is Up! provides all the excitement of game night with none of the fist-fights!
Friday, March 20th at 8:00 pm
Stage 773
1225 W Belmont Ave
CANCELED DUE TO THE LOCKDOWN
Art in the Time of Plagiarism
Image by Elissa Shortridge Jacobsen
