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The Reading Series Returns Tonight at Mrs Murphy's Irish Bistro with CICADA

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After taking a little pause for June, the Monthly Reading Series returns with a hot summertime offering beginning tonight!

CICADA
by Jerre Dye
directed by
Associate Artistic Director
Erica Weiss
Winner of the Bryan Family Award for Dramatic Literature from The Fellowship of Southern Writers
Tonight, Monday, JULY 15th
7:30 PM
at Mrs Murphy's Irish Bistro

Set in rural Mississippi, this coming-of-age ghost story revolves around a small Southern family on the verge of transformation. The unrelenting July heat presses in on seventeen-year old Ace and his mother Lily as they dig their way out of the past.

Featuring

Annabel Armour
Alexis Atwill
Sean Cooper
William Dick
Millicent Hurley
Patricia Kane
Amy Matheny
Ian Daniel McLaren
Melissa Reimer
Cecelia Wingate

Join us as this exciting new play is read in Chicago for the first time! Order drinks and food upstairs, and as always, we hope you'll stick around afterward for drinks and discussion!

MONDAY, July 15th at 7:30PM
Upstairs at Mrs Murphy's Irish Bistro
(3905 N Lincoln Ave)
Suggested donation: $5


The plays selected for the remainder of the 2013 Reading Series Season all revolve around the action EMERGE. Many of these stories feature young protagonists or disparate families coming into their own- for better or worse- with all the empowerment and terror that Emergence entails.

Route 66 Theatre Company produces plays and musicals that embrace the American spirit of exploration and fearlessness.

Theatre is an invitation to discussion and participation, with both artists and patrons. Our journey begins with engaging our audiences in our play selection process through monthly reading events and ends in a season of Chicago-based premieres.

We value inclusion of many voices and a bold approach to stories with an urgency to be told. We take a no-holds-barred approach to bringing the highest quality of production values and performances to our Chicago audiences. Our programming is selected based on its ability to grab an audience emotionally and take us all on a theatrical "road trip" of discussion and discovery.

www.route66theatre.org


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