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 9
2016-2017 Season
Image by Elissa Shortridge
TIME - THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF EVERYTHING
Image by Elissa Shortridge
THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH
AS TOLD BY MR. GEORGE SMITH, ASSOCIATE CURATOR FOR THE BRITISH MUSEUM (DECEASED)
by Gregory Peters*
directed by Jack Dugan Carpenter*
October 7-29 at Berger Park Coach House
The stories of Gilgamesh, ancient King of Uruk, hero of the oldest epic known to humanity; and George Smith, working-class Victorian, who first discovered and translated the epic, are woven together in this mix of the fabulous and the mundane: ancient Sumerians, reserved Victorians, giant scorpions, archaeological gamesmanship, mythical monsters, museum politics, disgruntled gods, language barriers, and the Great Flood.
CAST:
GEORGE SMITH: Bryan Breau*
GILGAMESH: Raef Carter
THE ARK BUILDER: Joe Feliciano
MARY SMITH & Others: Jessica Saxvik*
SIR RAWLINSON & Others: Peter Ash
ENKIDU & Others: Daniel Chenard
MATTHEWSON & Others: Stephen McClure*
EDWIN ARNOLD & Others: Isaac Samuelson
RIMAT-NINSUN & Others: Julia Stemper*
SHAMHAT & Others: Emily Green
PROFESSOR ENEBERG & Others: Bill Daniel
SHAMASH & Others: Graham Emmons*
Images by Joe Mazza at BraveLux
PRODUCTION TEAM:
Director: Jack Dugan Carpenter*
Assistant Director: Samantha Decker
Stage Manager: Christina Casano*
Production Managers: Greg Peters*/Sara Jean McCarthy*
Set Designer/TD: Derik Marcussen*
Costume/Props Designer: Emma Cullimore*
Sound Designer/Original Music: Stephen Gawrit
Lighting Designer: John Jacobsen
* - is the mark of a Plagiarist
RECOMMENDED! Newcity Stage
"The Plagiarists Gilgamesh is part Indiana Jones, part Tom Stoppard" -- Chicago Reader
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CIRCLE HOUSE
a group-written work assembled by Jessica Wright Buha*
directed by Kate Nawrocki
April 28 - May 27 at Berger Park’s North Mansion
This environmental piece examined the rhythms of birth and death: how we find meaning in life when death is inevitable, how life persists and regenerates, the trials of growing up, and the cyclical nature of the world.
FEATURING:
Bryan Breau*, Christina Casano*Graham Emmons*, Emily Green, Katherine Lamb, Sara Jean McCarthy*, Jhenai Mootz, Judi Schindler, and Elaine Small.
PRODUCTION TEAM:
Becky Bishop (Stage Manager), Emily Wills (Assistant Director) Emma Cullimore* (Production Designer), Derik Marcussen* (Production Designer), Gregory Peters* & Jack Dugan Carpenter* (Production Managers), Nick Freed* (Sound Designer), and Artistic Ensemble member John Jacobson (Lighting Designer).
Images by Joe Mazza at BraveLux
Writing Team:
Head Writer
Jessica Wright Buha*
Deputy Writer
Axel Arth
Contributing Editor
Jodie Smylie
Contributing Writers
Axel Arth
Brad Brubaker
Jessica Wright Buha*
Kaitlin Byrd
Christina Casano*
Kara Davidson
Sarah Idzik
Amanda Link
Charlotte Long
Derik Marcussen*
Sara Jean McCarthy*
Aileen McGroddy
Darren Meyers
Deanna Myers
Gregory Peters*
Ellenor Riley-Condit
Jessica Saxvik*
Skyler Schrempp
Jodie Smylie
Dusty Wilson
* - is the mark of a Plagiarist
High praise for CIRCLE HOUSE!
"... a really moving and enjoyable play... really memorable and beautiful moments. I really liked it." -- Ada Grey
"... wildly talented entourage..."
"... the script was interpreted perfectly by the talented actors..." -- Sharon Sultan Cutler, Splash Magazines
Other Season Events:
SALON, "Time" Part 1
The Black Rock Pub & Kitchen
Image by Elissa Shortridge
What's So Dangerous About Dancing? 9
Sunday, January 15, 2017
Danny's
SALON, "Time" Part 2
Monday, February 27
Catalyst Ranch
656 W Randolph St #3W
Chicago, IL 60661
Pictures by Jeff Duhigg
Image by Elissa Shortridge
Be a part of our journey through TIME!
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The Plagiarists' 2016-17 Season was generously supported by:
