Open Rehearsal: The Court Theatre Blog
March 12, 2010
Big Love
For those of you in the Hyde Park neighborhood (and beyond!), Court Theatre would like to put in a last-minute recommendation for you to go see Chuck Mee’s play Big Love at University Theater at the University of Chicago. The show is directed by Sean Graney, director of They Mystery of Irma Vep and What the Butler Saw at Court, and a lecturer in the Theater and Performance Studies department at the UofC. Not only is it one of the best student productions I’ve seen at UT, it’s also one of the best theater productions I’ve seen this year, hands down.
Big Love has three more shows: Friday 3/12 at 8:00, and Saturday 3/13 at 2:00 and 8:00. See it in the First Floor Theater in the Reynolds Club at 5701 S. University Avenue. More details here.
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I saw the Illusion Saturday. Most of the actors were second class; too emphatic, and not natural.
The way the play itself butchered Corneille’s in its pretentiousness was very disappointing. In the hands of Newell and Kushner Conreille became some kind of sitcom.
Especially disappointing was the ending…just read Corneille’s ending and you will understand.
I hope the Court will get back at doing Classic theater and stop serving us adaptations and musicals. As it is the Court has lost its true identity!!!
By Andrew on March 14, 2010 at 9:27 pm