THE LYONS, THE WOMEN OF LOCKERBIE and More Set for AstonRep's 2015-16 Season
By: BWW News Desk May. 01, 2015
AstonRep Theatre Company is pleased to announce its full 2015-16 season, kicking off this fall with the Chicago premiere of Nicky Silver's darkly humorous family drama THE LYONS, directed by Company Member Derek Bertelsen.
Next spring, AstonRep presents another Chicago premiere, Deborah Brevoort's moving drama THE WOMEN OF LOCKERBIE, inspired by events following the infamous 1988 crash of Pan Am Flight 103.
Both productions will be staged at AstonRep's new artistic home, The Raven Theatre (West Stage), 6157 N. Clark St. in Chicago.
The season also includes AstonActs, a collection of premiere theatrical stagings adapted from contemporary short stories to be presented in January/February 2016 at The Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago.
Tickets for all productions will go on sale at a later date. For additional information, visit www.astonrep.com.
AstonRep Theatre Company's 2015-16 Season:
August 30 - September 27, 2015
THE LYONS - Chicago Premiere!
By Nicky Silver
Directed by Company Member Derek Bertelsen
at The Raven Theatre (West Stage), 6157 N. Clark St. in Chicago
Indomitable matriarch Rita Lyons is at a major crossroads. Her husband is dying, her son is in a dubious relationship, and her daughter is barely holding it together. Tempers flare, words are exchanged, and secrets are revealed. Worst of all, Rita can't figure out how to redesign her living room.
THE LYONS premiered on Broadway in 2012, receiving multiple Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League Award nominations.
Nicky Silver is an American playwright. Many of his plays have been produced Off-Broadway. Nicky's plays include eight which have premiered at Vineyard Theatre: The Lyons (Broadway), Pterodactyls (Oppenheimer Award, Kesselring Award, Drama Desk nom, Outer Critics Circle nom), Raised in Captivity (Drama Desk nom, Outer Critics Circle nom), The Eros Trilogy, The Maiden's Prayer, My Marriage to Ernest Borgnine (Vineyard Lab Production), The Altruists, Beautiful Child and The Agony and the Agony (Vineyard Lab Production). Other notable plays include Three Changes (Playwrights Horizons), The Food Chain (Broadway, Outer Critics Circle nom), Fat Men in Skirts, Fit to be Tied, Free Will and Wanton Lust (Helen Hayes Award), the new book for the Broadway revival of the Rodgers and Hart musical, The Boys from Syracuse, and more.
April 10 - May 8, 2016
THE WOMEN OF LOCKERBIE - Chicago premiere!
at The Raven Theatre (West Stage), 6157 N. Clark St. in Chicago
Inspired by a true story, this moving drama follows a group called the Women of Lockerbie, who are determined to turn an act of hatred into an act of love. The story begins with a couple trying to gain closure after the death of their son in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. They encounter the Women of Lockerbie, who want to wash the clothes of the dead and return them to the victim's families. A poetic drama about the triumph of love over hate.
Deborah Brevoort is a playwright and librettist from Alaska who now lives in the New York City area. She is an alumna of New Dramatists, one of the original company members of Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska and a co-founder of Theatre Without Borders, a group of individual artists dedicated to international theatre exchange. She is best known for her play The Women of Lockerbie, which won the Kennedy Center's Fund for New American Plays Award and the silver medal in the Onassis International Playwriting Competition. It was produced in London at the Orange Tree, off-Broadway at the New Group and Women's Project and in Los Angeles at the Actors Gang.
January/February 2016
AstonActs
at The Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago
AstonActs brings together various members of Chicago's theatre community in an evening of one-act theatrical premieres. This new initiative from AstonRep Theatre features contemporary adaptations of literary works, with each one-act presented by Chicago-based directors and actors. AstonActs expands on the company's tradition of supporting the development and cultivation of new works through its long-running Writer's Series.
AstonRep Theatre Company was formed in the summer of 2008. Since then, the company has produced 14 full-length productions and five annual Writer's Series. AstonRep Theatre Company is an ensemble of artists committed to creating exciting, intimate theatrical experiences that go beyond the front door to challenge audiences and spark discussion where the show is not the end of the experience: it is just the beginning.
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