Bailiwick's 2008 Pride Series

 

For more than two decades, Bailiwick Repertory has introduced original, groundbreaking and engaging GLBT theatre to Chicago audiences.  This year, we are proud to present the Chicago premieres of three works by emerging gay playwrights with international themes. Two dramas will run in repertory in prime-time slots.  ANNA  LIVIA, LUCKY IN HER BRIDGES is set in Dublin and explores the endurance of love. CHIAROSCURO (STUDY IN SHADOW) examines the work of Italian Renaissance artist Caravaggio, exploring all of his passions. And the late night comedy FILTHY PERVERT SEEKS SAME by Australia's most prolific playwright Steven Dawson makes for late night hilarity.

 
The series also feature the 2008 Trailblazer Awards on October 12, and special events including the reading of works development for 2009, and featured musical performers. (A separate release will follow for the Awards and the special events.)

ANNA LIVIA, LUCKY IN HER BRIDGES, by David Brendan Hopes and directed by Kevin Mayes, is a story of the endurance of love.  It is Dublin on the first Bloomsday, June 16, 1904.  Ellen is about to lose her beau, James Joyce, to a lump of a girl from Galway.  Her brother Des is following his heart towards forbidden love. Barry, their young brother, wants to join the resistance. And a stranger from America seeks illicit companionship under the dark bridges of the Liffey.  In some ways, ANNA LIVIA, LUCKY IN HER BRIDGES a chronicle of the endurance of love, and the ways in which God himself will intervene if the passion is deep enough, strange enough, and tenacious even beyond death.

ANNA LIVIA, LUCKY IN HER BRIDGES has $15 previews Thursday, September 11 at 7:30 and Friday, September 12 at 7:30 for $15. Opening night is Saturday September 13 at 7:30.  Regular performances are Thursdays at 7:30 for $20, Saturday at 7:30 for $25, and Sundays at 3:30 for $25 through October 19.

CHIAROSCURO (A STUDY IN SHADOW), by Kenneth N. Kurtz and directed by Rachel Edwards Harvith, tells the story of the artist Caravaggio and a beautiful young farmer hired off of the streets of Renaissance Rome to pose for a painting of The Flaying of Marsyas.  Poetry, memory, torture and lust all come into play, for both artist and model have something to hide. What happens when a model has too little imagination and an artist has too much?

CHIAROSCURO has $15 previews Monday September 22 at 7:30 and Tuesday September 23 at 7:30, and opens Wednesday September 24 at 7:30.  Regular performances will be on Wednesdays at 7:30 for $20, and on Fridays and Sundays at 7:30 for $25 through October 19. Please note there is no Sunday performance on October 12.

FILTHY PERVERT SEEKS SAME by Steven Dawson and directed by Michael Hampton, is a cheeky comedy exploring how modern gay men find love and happiness - or at least a real good time - by utilizing technology.  The one-liners abound as four actors play a variety of men who share their ideas about sex, real, exaggerated, or imagined.

FILTHY PERVERT SEEKS SAME will open on Friday September 19 at 10:30 and close Saturday October 18 at 10:30, and all tickets will be $25.  All performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 10:30.

Since 1982, Bailiwick has been a leader of Chicago's Off-Loop Theater scene, earning over 150 Jeff Awards and Nominations, more than any other Chicago theater including this year's award for Best Musical for JERRY SPRINGER – THE OPERA. Bailiwick's Primary Series features new musicals, many by Chicago writers, complemented by our Community Programs including the Pride Series (GLBT Work), Women of the Wick, Directors Festival, and Kids of All Kinds.
 

Bailiwick offers flexible subscription passes starting at $95 for four admissions that can be used in any combination for any show in the building on any day of the week, going up to 16 admissions for $275.

For tickets and subscriptions, call 773-883-1090 or order on-line at www.bailiwick.org.