Collaboraction Partners with Chicago Park District to Tour CRIME SCENE to Four Parks This Summer
Collaboraction Theatre Company is adapting their hit original play Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology into an evolved sequel entitled Crime Scene Chicago: Let Hope Rise and touring it to four public parks this summer with free admission in partnership with the Chicago Park District.
Crime Scene: Let Hope Rise will perform at the following parks:
July 12-13: LeClaire -Hearst Park, 5120 W. 44th St.
July 26-27: Sherman Park , 1301 W. 52nd St.
August 16-17: Hamilton Park , 513 W. 72nd St.
August 23-24: Austin Town Hall Park , 5610 W. Lake St.
Show times are Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets are free and can be reserved by emailing lethoperise@collaboraction.org. Learn more at www.collaboraction.org or call 312.226.9633. Crime Scene: Let Hope Rise runs approximately 85 minutes, followed each night by a facilitated discussion. The show is recommended for ages 14 and up due to violence and mature content.
Crime Scene Chicago: Let Hope Rise is a timely new theatrical reaction to Chicago's history of violent crime and a call to discover what it might take to create lasting change in our city. The show, a Collaboraction world premiere conceived and directed by Anthony Moseley, couples nonfiction source material such as interviews, articles, and online comments with re-enactments of true Chicago crimes to raise critical questions surrounding segregation, poverty, the news media, popular culture, and our numbness to it all.
When it originally opened in mid-February, the play was universally lauded by the local press, receiving 3 ½ stars from the Chicago Tribune, a HIGHLY RECOMMENDED rating from the Chicago Sun-Times, a video profile on WTTW-TV Chicago Tonight, and national feature coverage in the March issue of American Theatre Magazine.
In adapting the play for the tour, the team envisions a sequel that takes a closer look at the systemic conditions that enable and abet violence, and incorporates a more hopeful tone than the original piece, whose primary goal was to awaken patrons to the epidemic of senseless violence in the city.
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