other ways to resist: a FREE festival of four new plays
4 Plays // 2 Nights
each evening followed by a brief talkback
Greenhouse Theater Center (2257 N. Lincoln Ave Chicago)
each evening followed by a brief talkback
Greenhouse Theater Center (2257 N. Lincoln Ave Chicago)
Wednesday, April 4 at 7:30 pm:
SAME SECTS!
By Paul Michael Thomson
Hooking up is supposed to be fun, but in the Age of Trump, even the extremely personal becomes overtly political. SAME SECTS! is a play about assumption, identity, intimacy and what happens when they share a bed.
AMERICANS
By David Lew Cooper
What would you do, trapped in a room with your political adversary? Two Americans find out after a protest gone wrong. Detained and unsure of each other's allegiances, the two commiserate seeking solace in one another until introductions turn to indictments and details lead to a dangerous conclusion.
Wednesday, April 18 at 7:30 pm:
TOUCHÉ, THE GOLD COAST, WORKING-CLASS MUSCLE, TOMORROW’S MAN, JIMMY FRENCH, SAMMY AND ME
By Rob Onorato
TOUCHÉ, THE GOLD COAST... is an orgiastic essay-play spanning more than 70 years of white gay masculinity in the city of big shoulders. Instagram images, physique magazines and leather bar art all are assembled to explore the masc/nelly duality in this cruisy new theatrical experience.
PASSING OFF
By Carol Ann Tan
By all social media accounts, Hui Min has left Singapore in pursuit of bigger dreams. But she’s finding it harder than she expected to assimilate into America, and her constant digital presence only reminds her of what she's left behind. When Hui Min finally develops a closer relationship with a white American, she must confront her personal expectations of what assimilation looks like in America — and the reasons why she'd wanted to leave Singapore at all.
SAME SECTS!
By Paul Michael Thomson
Hooking up is supposed to be fun, but in the Age of Trump, even the extremely personal becomes overtly political. SAME SECTS! is a play about assumption, identity, intimacy and what happens when they share a bed.
AMERICANS
By David Lew Cooper
What would you do, trapped in a room with your political adversary? Two Americans find out after a protest gone wrong. Detained and unsure of each other's allegiances, the two commiserate seeking solace in one another until introductions turn to indictments and details lead to a dangerous conclusion.
Wednesday, April 18 at 7:30 pm:
TOUCHÉ, THE GOLD COAST, WORKING-CLASS MUSCLE, TOMORROW’S MAN, JIMMY FRENCH, SAMMY AND ME
By Rob Onorato
TOUCHÉ, THE GOLD COAST... is an orgiastic essay-play spanning more than 70 years of white gay masculinity in the city of big shoulders. Instagram images, physique magazines and leather bar art all are assembled to explore the masc/nelly duality in this cruisy new theatrical experience.
PASSING OFF
By Carol Ann Tan
By all social media accounts, Hui Min has left Singapore in pursuit of bigger dreams. But she’s finding it harder than she expected to assimilate into America, and her constant digital presence only reminds her of what she's left behind. When Hui Min finally develops a closer relationship with a white American, she must confront her personal expectations of what assimilation looks like in America — and the reasons why she'd wanted to leave Singapore at all.
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Other Theatre is dedicated to telling the stories of persons or groups who are othered by systems of oppression. Othering individuals or groups sustains power and privilege. Othering inherently implies hierarchy. Othering keeps the power in the hands of those who already have it. Othering is an "us" vs. "them" mentality often centered around race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, identity, class, religion, and ability. Other Theatre is committed to telling these stories in the hope that we can lessen the amount of discrimination and oppression in our world. We are a collective of artists who believe in the power of theatre to enact social change. We believe in equality for all human beings. |
