2009-2010 Season

Aunt Dan and Lemon

Orange Flower Water

The Play About The Baby

 

Now Open

Now Open

November 20th, 2009 - December 20th, 2009

Thursday - Saturday at 7:30 Sunday at 3:00

at Chopin Studio Theatre
1543 W. Division St.
Chicago, IL 60622

No performance on Thursday, November 26th.

$18-20 General Admission $10 Industry Tickets available Thursday and Sunday.

Jeff Recommended!



BackStage Theatre Company begins its 10th Anniversary Season by asking you to step inside the home of a woman called Lemon. Lemon has a story to tell. What begins as a deceptively simple coming-of-age yarn about her seemingly ordinary family soon becomes a complex meditation on the persuasive power of intimacy. Written by one of the more controversial playwrights of the contemporary American theatre, Aunt Dan and Lemon is a both a mordant comedy and a chilling cautionary tale about the subversive nature of influence.

Praise

JEFF RECOMMENDED!!!


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” . . . [Brenda] Barrie, exquisite as always, presents [Aunt Dan] with a disarming sensuousness; a mix of faith and pent-up sex, she could be an escaped nun from Black Narcissus . . .”


” . . . It’s filled with sick laughs . . .”


” . . . The ensemble is an excellent pack of beasts, from Ron Kuzava as Lemon’s frothing American father to Caitlin Emmons’s amoral call girl, stalking the stage for prey. It’s rarely such fun to hate everyone onstage . . .”


” . . . Heath Hays’s set design extends the sumptuous feel of the Chopin’s basement lobby directly into the playing area, as though Lemon and the audience are having a drink together. It’s a comfortable place. Luckily, the play isn’t . . .”


- Caitlin Montanye Parrish, Time Out Chicago

 

Journey To Dan

by Matthew Reeder - November 23rd, 2009

When I first met Aunt Dan on the page, it was clear to me that she is passionate and bold, and that she lived her life with an almost violent intensity.  I absolutely fell in love with her free spirit—with her Victorian blouses and nineteenth century men’s caps—and I was drawn in by her worldliness [...]