The Conspirators Present ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF A BLACK MOTORIST
The Conspirators will present their World Premiere adaptation, Accidental Death of a Black Motorist, adapted from Dario Fo by Sid Feldman and directed by Wm. Bullion, to be performed at the Athenaeum Theatre, Studio 1, 2936 N. Southport Ave. in Chicago. There will be a preview on Thursday, October 24th, and the opening is Friday October 25th. The show will run Thursdays-Saturdays at 8PM through November 23rd.
An ambitious actor infiltrates the confines of a police station where earlier, a falsely arrested black motorist "fell" from the 4th story window and was found dead on the street. Using his bag of tricks and supremely transcendent(!) character work, he puts the police detectives through an interrogation they can't keep up with, revealing damning secrets being withheld by the force.
Updated and adapted by founding Conspirator Sid Feldman from the modern classic, Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Nobel Prize-winner Dario Fo, Accidental Death of a Black Motorist drops Fo's story smack in the middle of one of America's worst abuses of power.
The full cast and production team of Accidental Death of a Black Motorist will be announced in the coming weeks.
Tickets available at: 773-935-6875 or https://athenaeumtheatre.org
Sid Feldman co-founded The Conspirators and has written plays, adaptations, screenplays, reviews and essays. He has produced plays, concerts and events for numerous organizations including New Crime and Sliced Bread Productions (also with Wm. Bullion!). Sid sends his love to his twin daughters Aviva and Beatrix.
Wm. Bullion is a veteran tragicomedian, director and actor on the fringe of the Chicago theater fringe and beyond. Billy is a grateful ensemble member of his beloved Factory Theater, for whom he has directed Prophet$ and Born Ready. He started Sliced Bread Productions in 1988 and put up some solid work before it folded in 2008. He loved doing the last three Conspirators pieces, Yankee Doodles: Let Treason Ring!, The Deckchairs, or Make the Titanic Great Again and The Resistible Rise of Herr Helmut Drumpf, but is a fool to think starting another theater group in Chicago is a viable, sustainable idea. Yet, here we are!
The Conspirators are a (new) theater & performance collective in Chicago dedicated to provoking thought and action through dynamic, immediate theater art. The Conspirators work exclusively in a style of neo-commedia dell'arte called "The Style"-a highly theatrical performance mode developed by movie stars Tim Robbins and John Cusack from the techniques of Ariane Mnouchkine, Commedia dell'Arte, Bugs Bunny cartoons, and punk rock and as historically performed by New Crime Prod. (R.I.P.) and The Actors' Gang. The company also offers Style workshops to interested performers of all caliber.
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