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THE CLOWNS ARE BACK.
WE’RE NOT JOKING.
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RED NOSES
RED NOSES
RED NOSES
RED NOSES
RED NOSES
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by Peter Barnes
directed by
Matt Hawkins
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Theatre on the Lake JUL 14-18, 2010
Wednesday-Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 6:30pm
Tickets $17.50 - CALL 312.742.7994
Strawdog Theatre JUL 22 - AUG 15, 2010
Friday & Saturday 8pm, Sunday 3pm
Tickets $20 ($15 student/senior)
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Director Matt Hawkins is working at the top of his game with a show that easily melds top 40 tunes, real emotion and laughter at the lip's edge of a grave.
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— Chicago Tribune |
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 ... Barnes's work feels utterly, surprisingly relevant in this inventive and kinetic staging ... Red Noses is a major achievement ...
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— Time Out Chicago |
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RECOMMENDED. ... an exhilarating, hilariously unsettling meditation on the orgiastic response to mass human die-off.
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— Chicago Reader |
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What a treat to watch this tight 23-person cast at complete ease with their challenging material, riffing off each other even as the tone constantly shifts from silly to dark to inspirational ... It’s rare indeed to find a show packed with gallows humor that doesn’t trivialize death, yet leaves everyone smiling.
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— Chicago Free Press |
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Think the world's got problems now? In the mid-1300's, the Black Plague wiped out
half the population of Europe. HALF. More conservative estimates say one quarter.
But we find HALF gets the point across better. People were dropping like flies, and
the living had trouble deciding what to do with themselves. Uncontrollable weeping?
Self-flagellation?
For one priest, the answer is clear: make 'em laugh. Turning a band of desperate
misfits into a troupe of deeply untalented circus performers, he sets out to prove that
the best defense against a cruel world is a bad joke beautifully told.
Matt Hawkins, director of The House Theatre's hit show "Hatfield and McCoy," brings
Peter Barnes' epic extravaganza and its cast of 23 to Strawdog's intimate space. It's
a delirious, hilarious, but entirely serious kick to the pants of death, despair,
Puritanism and everything else that has it coming. |
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