What's New
2006-2007
Season Recap
Another
theatrical year here and gone. And oh, what a season it
was!
Last
summer and fall we had readings of Kids These Days (or, The
Notorious Dunaway High Fiasco), Watering a Beard Full of Bees,
Lesser Arcana, and 13 Husbands, all by Sansculottes
Artistic Associates. The reading series culminated
with a staged reading of our collectively written show, The
Posada Project.
This
spring we had the distinct honor of producing our thirteenth
world premiere, this one written by our Literary Manager,
Adam Simon. Fear of a Hood received critical acclaim
("Fear of A Hood is a well crafted work, tightly written
and nicely paced. . . . Adam Simon is a promising new voice,"
raved Tom Williams of chicagocritic.com).
We wholeheartedly agree and will miss Adam's voice this fall when
he trades in the blustery Chicago weather for warm sunshine while
he pursues his master's degree in playwriting at UCLA. We know
this is not goodbye, but "see you later."
We
had the pleasure of participating in Suzan-Lori Parks's nation-wide
festival of 365 Days/365 Plays. This was very
exciting because we actually got to work with four other super-cool
theater companies to present Parks's works and our collaboratively
written reactions to the pieces. Thanks to Pavement Group, MOB
Productions, The Morning After Company, and Manifest Theatre for
generously providing their time, support, and creativity. We were
featured at the mid-year performance at the Chicago Cultural Center,
alongside such acclaimed theater companies as the Neofuturists,
Infamous Commonwealth Theatre, Collaboraction Theatre Company,
and the Moving Dock Theatre Company. Nice brushing shoulders with
you cool cats.
Finally,
we need to shout out a thank-you to our board—particularly
Lauri Dahl, our president—for all of their assistance this
past season. Lauri has decided to focus on keeping us in the black
for next season as treasurer and has turned over her presidential
duties to Dean Corrin. We are grateful for all the support Lauri
provided and are excited to work more closely with Dean.
Thank
you for your love and support! We would be lost without
you.
6-25-07
Blink
and you missed it. Our annual "No Pants, Just Shorts"
ten-minute play festival wes quite a success with an over-capacity
audience. Thanks to Feed the Beast for the donation of the space
and for being such good sports. While you were there did you try
the fried ravioli? 'Cause they're really good.
4-22-07
You
wouldn't expect a lot of drinking at a birthday party for a three-year-old,
but then again you wouldn't expect most three-year-olds to devote
themselves to producing new theatrical works. Many thanks to everyone
who came to raise a glass at the Four Moon Tavern in celebration
of Sansculottes' third birthday!
If
you're a writer or actor interested in working with Sansculottes,
our upcoming No Pants, Just Shorts festival is
a great way to get involved. See the full submission info on our
calendar page.
4-8-07
Two
performances, five companies, sixteen plays, thirty performers,
a couple hundred audience members . . . somehow that all adds
up to 365 Plays/365 Days. Wow. We're excited
and grateful to have worked with the Pavement Group, Mob Productions,
the Morning After Company, and Manifest Theatre. Big thanks go
to the Heart of Gold loft, too, for hosting the whole thing.
3-25-07
Thanks
to everyone who came to our Art for Art's Sake benefit.
The evening was a giant success for us, and we hope you had a
great time too. If you're looking for a memento, check out the
limited-edition
mug we've created with the doodle that Bernie
McGovern drew right there in the gallery.
1-15-07
Huge
congratulations to the cast of Practical Anatomy,
which the Windy City Times named one of the Outstanding Ensembles
of 2006.
Our
former artistic director Terry Selucky directed the show, which
featured the splendid performances of Christopher Prentice, Renee
Ann Roy, Amelia Lorenz, Joe Stearns, Dan Granata, John Leen, Colleen
McSherry, Roseanne Clark, Charles Schoenherr, Andrea Klunder,
and Sansculottes artistic associates Michael Barker and Dan Kerr-Hobert.
We're
thrilled to work with such talented artists, and we couldn't be
prouder of the cast.
1-1-07
Happy
New Year! Perhaps you'd like to celebrate it with some
spiffy
new Sanscumerchandise.
10-31-06
Thanks
to all who showed up at American Theater Company for the preview
of our new collectively written play, The Posada Project.
The
Posada Project was created by a collaboration of company writers
and designers including Tom Horan, Adam Simon, Colby Turner, and
Matt Gawryk, as well as guest artists Bernie McGovern, Gene Gemperline,
and Megan Breen. Guest Director: Chris Garcia Peak.
10-21-06
We
heard Sylvester Stallone wrote the script for Rocky in
three days. We heard that about Robert Louis Stevenson and Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde too. No clue whether it's true, but we
do know this: we're three weeks into The Posada Project,
our newest collective endeavor, and we're pretty dang
excited about what it is and where it's going. Come see for yourself
at the workshop performance on October 27.
8-16-06
Summer
has... sprung, and Sansculottes is knee deep in our 2006 summer
reading series. This summer's plays include Kids These Days
(or, The Notorious Dunaway High Fiasco), Watering
a Beard Full of Bees, Fear of a Hood, Lesser Arcana, and
13 Husbands, all by Sansculottes Artistic Associates.
Want more info? Email tom@sansculottes.org.
6-13-06
A peaceful
transfer of power? Seems counter-revolutionary, no? But that's
just what's happened. Artistic Associate and Head of New
Play Development Tom Horan has taken over as Artistic Director,
with the unanimous support of Sansculottes' Board and Associates.
Co-founder Terry Selucky , up until now Sansculottes' only Artistic
Director, is moving to New York City; she will be Sansculottes'
first Associate Emeritus. Viva la revolución!
6-13-06
3 playwrights.
3 directors. 3 scripts. A casting pool of over 60. An audience
of over 80. So much love. Thanks for making the first annual No
Pants, Just Shorts a huge success. We had an audience
of over 80 people sitting shoulder-to-shoulder at Kitsch'n
River North, over 60 of whom brought a headshot to be considered
for one of the eight roles available.
Big
love to NPJS playwrights David Gilbert, Bryce
Wissel, and Michael Burgan, directors Steve Scott, Ronan Marra
and Jessa Carlstrom, and Chicago literati/ celebrity judges Bill
Massolia, Rosie Forrest and Dean Corrin.
2-20-06
What can we say? We are
blessed. Screw Love 2: Fool Me Twice
played to four nights of sold-out or might-as-well-be-sold-out
houses. You guys are the best audience a girl could hope for. |
