Next Theatre 2012 - 2013 Season to Include U.S. Premiere of EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATE

By: Harmony Wheeler Apr. 10, 2012

Next Theatre Company announces their 32^nd main stage season. The season begins with Iphigenia 2.0 by Charles Mee, directed by David Kersnar; followed by the Midwest premiere of Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter written by Julie Marie Myatt and directed by Jessica Thebus. The United States premiere of Everything is Illuminated, by Simon Block adapted from Jonathan Safron Foers' novel and directed by Devon DeMayo begins 2013, and the season will conclude with a co-production with the Theatre and Interpretation Center at Northwestern University, and in partnership with The Center on Wrongful Convictions, The Exonerated, by Jessica Blank and Eric Jensen, directed by Cat Miller and presented at the Josephine Louis Theater, 20 Arts Circle Drive, Northwestern University. The first three main stage productions are presented at Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes Street in Evanston. To find out information about subscribing to the season, visit the website at www.nexttheatre.org or call the box office at 847-475-1875 x2.

Iphigenia 2.0*

By Charles Mee

Directed by David Kersnar

September 6 – October 14

Opening/Press Night: Tuesday, Sept. 11 at 7 p.m.

An exuberant and modern retelling of Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides, Iphigenia 2.0 is filled with pop culture and music about the tragic ways in which history repeats itself. A great imperial power decides to go to war, taking an action so wrong that it sets the empire on the road to complete self-destruction. Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek army, must prove to his uncertain troops that the dangerous battle they are about to undertake is righteous and worthy by making the ultimate sacrifice of his daughter.

Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter*

Midwest Premiere

By Julie Marie Myatt

Directed by Jessica Thebus

November 20 – December 23

Opening/Press Night: Tuesday, Nov. 27 at 7 p.m.

A darkly funny play with music about healing and the ways in which we as a nation ignore our returning veterans. When U.S. Marine Jenny Sutter returns from Iraq, she lays down her rifle but isn't ready to pick up her children. Buying some time, Jenny takes a one-way trip to nowhere-a desert community where misfit residents gently nurture her wounded spirit and nudge her back to her own humanity.

Everything is Illuminated*

UNITES STATES PREMIERE

By Simon Block

Adapted from the novel by Jonathan Safron Foers

Directed by Devon DeMayo

February 21 – March 31, 2013

Opening/Press Night: Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 at 7 p.m.

With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man, Jonathan, sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Jr. Jr.; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butcherEd English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape into an unexpected past.

The Exonerated*

By Jessica Blank and Eric Jensen

Directed by Cat Miller

Co-Produced with the Theatre and Interpretation Center at Northwestern University and presented in partnership with The Center on Wrongful Convictions

April 19 – May 5, 2013**

**Performed at the Josephine Louis Theater, 20 Arts Circle Drive, Northwestern University

Based on interviews conducted by playwrights Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, The Exonerated follows six former Death Row prisoners whose convictions were reversed. From their trials to their incarcerations to their eventual releases, this award-winning play uses the words of these innocent men and women as they share the stories of everything and everyone that they lost when they were wrongly convicted, as well as the lives they are working to rebuild. The inaugural collaboration between Next and the Theatre and Interpretation Center (TIC) at Northwestern University, The Exonerated will be staged at TIC in partnership with The Center on Wrongful Convictions and will feature a cast of professional and student artists working together on this exploration of the criminal justice system.

*All productions and dates pending rights availability.

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