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Steep Theatre 2009 - 2010 Season
October 1 - November 7, 2009 |
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A lauded documentary filmmaker returns to his hometown to make a film about the city and its inhabitants' lives – a film to put them back on the map. The question: is there any existence here worth documenting? Steep Theatre launches its 9th season with this performace written by David Harrower. |
January 21 - April 25, 2010 |
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On a startlingly bright autumn night in 2008, Harper Regan walked away from her home and her husband and her daughter and she kept walking. From Uxbridge to Manchester, Harper Regan navigates the UK, exploring family, love and delusion; and how to live in a godless universe. Written by Simon Stephens. |
May 20 - June 26, 2010 |
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A deputy in a small Iowa town is assigned to transport one of the convicted to a new residence. But where do you bring someone who isn’t allowed to be anywhere? Director Jimmy McDermott makes his Steep Theatre debut. Written by Anthony Weigh. |
Steep Theatre 2008 - 2009 Season
October 30 - November 22, 2008 |
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A solitary man travels to the end of the line to wait for a bride he has never met. Surrounded by thieves, politicians, artists, and gunslingers at the edge of civilization, is it possible to start again? Steep Theatre opens its new home with this World Premiere by company member Egan Reich. |
January 15 - February 28, 2009 |
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Times Square, early 1990s, on the eve of its Disney-fication. Down and out, desperate, and on the verge of being displaced, the denizens of one of the Square's seediest bars struggle to keep a hold on their place in this world. Joanie Schulz directs this Midwest Premiere by the playwright behind Steep's 2006 hit The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. Written by Stephen Adly Gurgis. |
April 2 - May 9, 2009 |
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Parlour Song is the story of three ordinary people who find themselves suddenly and unexpectedly in trouble—and their unrealized dreams soon become unwelcome, shattering nightmares. Robin Witt, director of Steep's Breathing Corpses which was named to Timeout Chicago's Top Ten productions of 2008, returns to direct this Midwest Premiere by the author of Mojo and The Night Heron. Written by Jez Butterworth. |
June 25 - August 1, 2009 |
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Spanning almost fifty years, this harrowing, epic story follows an immigrant's, and a nation's, journey westward across the American continent in search of glory, riches, and their "Manifest Destiny". Jonathan Berry, director of Steep's Jeff Nominated The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, helms this Midwest Premiere production penned by the author of Search and Destroy and Boys' Life. Written by Howard Korder. |
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