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Alice SingletonAbout Alice SingletonAlice Singleton is a screenwriter, filmmaker, and local media darling residing in Chicago. She is obsessed with finding the antidote to the cult of mediocrity currently plaguing our society and uses her extensive and vast experience as Everywoman to focus her journalistic pursuits on the gale forces of gender, race and class that make this American life the perfect storm. Features
Eugene O’Neill’s ‘Strange Interlude’The Neo Futurists take what may be O’Neill’s most gut-wrenching work and make dry hijinks from inception to final bow. [18 March 2009] ReviewsAnimal Crackers: 18 September-25 October 2009 - ChicagoEighty years have passed since the Broadway debut of this work and another national economic crying time greets the Goodman’s production, but we can laugh until we pass out and forget our troubles in the meantime. [14 October 2009] Pangs of the MessiahLerner's characters lean to one-dimension; their humanity never makes its presence known as they perform high acts of cruelty and treason, even amongst one another. [12 April 2009] MagnoliaAs anyone who’s attempted to shake themselves loose from a diseased family tree can tell you, it’s not the branches that eternally grasp and devour the soul; it’s the root that can never be excised. [8 April 2009] Eugene O’Neill’s “The Hairy Ape”It’s as if O’Neill had a fever dream of our present times as we too, fear we are little more than hairy apes. [12 February 2009] Eugene O’Neill’s ‘Desire Under the Elms’This is allegory for the modern reality-show line-up – its classic Jerry Springer and Maury Povich on perpetual familial loop. [6 February 2009] Eugene O’Neill’s Zona de Guerra (In the Zone)At the time this was authored, Germany’s Kaiser was decimating young soldiers with mustard gas, American organized crime was providing an economy for the neglected ethnic masses ... not much has changed since. [20 January 2009] Superior DonutsThere’s a hole in the soul of America, and Tony Award winner (August: Osage County) Tracy Letts has written the allegory reflecting the possibly permanent national “skin condition." His comedy-drama, Superior Donuts, made its world premier at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater. [22 July 2008] BlogsNotes from the Road: Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘N’ Roll: 15 May 2009 - Goodman Theatre, Chicago [2 June 2009]Notes from the Road: Eugene O’Neill’s ‘The Long Voyage Home’ (Longa Viagem de Volta Pra Casa) [23 January 2009]Notes from the Road: Durango by Julia Cho (The Silk Road Theater, Chicago) [17 June 2008] |
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