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Ten Min Workshop
(10/16/2010)
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a new play
by Network Playwright Marsha Estell
Directed by Russ Tutterow
"Sometimes a good time...is all you have left."
Mudear is getting senile, Mama Sharon is totally uptight, and Aunt Rose just wants a date for Saturday night. So when big city Shelly comes home one sultry, summer night in hopes of restoring her spirit, she finds a broken air conditioner and a family heat wave to match the temperature. Sharing laughter, regrets, and fantasies about sweethearts, Sidney Poitier, and sweet potato pie, this family of African-American women is determined to hold itself together.
HEAT has been developed through readings at Chicago Dramatists, Goodman Theatre, New Perspectives Theatre in New York, and Dayton Futurefest. Ms. Estell was awarded a 2000 Illinois Arts Council Playwriting Fellowship. .
Featuring:
Mimi Ayers, Saralynne Crittenden, Felisha D. McNeal and Jillian Pollock-Reeves
Set Design, Joey Wade; Light Design, Jeff Pines; Sound Design, Joe Plummer; Costume Design, Tiffany Trent
March 11, 2004 - April 18, 2004
PREVIEWS: March 11 & 18 at 7:30pm, March 12 & 13 at 8pm
OPENING NIGHT: Friday, March 19 at 8pm - $20
BENEFIT PERFORMANCE: Saturday, March 20 - Drinks and dinner buffet at 6:00pm at Intuit, Performance at 8pm followed by dessert and champagne reception with cast
REGULAR PERFORMANCES: Thursday at 7:30pm, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm No show Sunday, March 14
TICKET PRICES: Thursdays & Sundays $16, Fridays & Saturdays $20, $10 starving artist tickets available - limited number available each performance. Call ahead.
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Chicago Dramatists' theatre is located 5 minutes from the loop at 1105 W. Chicago Ave. on the southwest corner of Chicago and Milwaukee Avenues. (Theatre entrance is in the rear of building on Aberdeen) Accessible by the CTA: CHICAGO stop on the Blue line subway
Free street parking is available within a couple blocks.
DIRECTIONS:
TO GET TO CHICAGO DRAMATISTS FROM THE NORTH: Take 90/94 east, exit at Ogden. At third stoplight, turn left onto Ogden. Go north to Milwaukee Ave and turn left. Make an immediate left onto Chicago Ave. Make two more immediate lefts onto May and Aberdeen respectively. Park on street. FROM THE SOUTH: Take 90/94 west, exit at Milwaukee/Augusta and turn left onto Milwaukee. Drive south over the interstate, then make a right onto Chicago Ave. Make two immediate lefts onto May and Aberdeen respectively. Park on street. FROM NORTH LSD: Take Grand Avenue exit. Make a right onto Grand and travel west to Milwaukee/Halsted streets (just past the Chicago River.) Turn right onto Milwaukee Ave (soft right) and head northwest to Chicago Ave. Make a left onto Chicago and then two more immediate lefts onto May and Aberdeen respectively. Park on street.
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