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SUMMARY:LESBIAN ARM WRESTLING
DESCRIPTION:CALLING ALL D*KES IN THE CHICAGOLAND AREA! HANG WITH LEZBIAN MINNELLI + JETT PARR TO COMPETE TO SEE WHO’S THE STRONGEST LEZ IN ALL THE LAND\n\n\nBUTCHES! FEMMES! STUDS! GAYS!\nyour fav lesbionic baristas are hosting a LESBIAN ARM WRESTLING COMPETITION at the understudy!✨ \n \njoin us saturday\, 11/14 to show off your arm wrestling chops and meet other sexy lesbians doing the same:) sign ups and doors open at 7:30p\, competition starts at 8p — so plsss be there on time bb✌🏽 \nbring your friends! your crush! your enemy! become enemies to lovers! anything can happen at lesbian arm wrestling💪 \n$10 to compete🏁 \n$5 to watch🫦 \nthere will be faaab prizes for our winners\, as well as free snacks and cheap drinks (including BUTCH PUNCH🍷) all night:) \nSponsors TBA <3 \n \nTHIS EVENT IS 21+ \n \nAGENDA\n7:30P – DOORS OPEN\, SIGN UPS START \n8:00P – COMPETITION START \nROUND 1 & 2 – ARM WRESTLING \nROUND 3 – THUMB WRESTLING \nFINAL ROUND – FINGER WRESTLING \n \nsee you there!!💋
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LOCATION:The Understudy Coffee and Books\, 5531 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60640\, United States
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SUMMARY:CIRCLE JERK and THIS AMERICAN WIFE: The Internet Theater of Fake Friends
DESCRIPTION:Two plays along with process essays on the cacophonous world of pop culture\, politics\, and personal testimony that we call the internet.\n\n\nJoin the artists of FAKE FRIENDS to dive into the cacophonous world of pop culture\, politics\, and personal testimony that we call the internet. We’re discussing their newly published plays CIRCLE JERK and THIS AMERICAN WIFE\, and the process leading to their creation. \n \nABOUT THE BOOK\n“Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley’s combined exceptional eye and ear makes something new in the American theater—something far more robust\, outrageous\, and inventive than anything we’ve seen in recent years\, and I for one can’t wait for their future.” —Hilton Als\, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and theater critic for The New Yorker \n \nIn March 2020\, the New York theater company Fake Friends was pushed off the stage and into the land of the internet. This book marks the first publication of two of their deliciously absurd and toxically serious internet plays\, Circle Jerk (the first-ever work in digital theater to be shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama) and This American Wife. Circle Jerk tells the social media–infused tale of gay white supremacists creating an AI-influencer to dominate the global discourse\, and This American Wife spins a surrealist web of queer devotion to the stars and performance strategies of reality television; both plays are unapologetically theatrical and digitally native\, born out of the exigencies of the pandemic. This collection features an electrifying visual archive as well as individual essays from each company member reflecting on the practical and interpersonal processes of bringing these award-winning plays to life in our ever-more online\, political\, and personal world. \n \nABOUT THE AUTHORS\nFAKE FRIENDS met at the Yale School of Drama and their work has been seen at Ars Nova\, the New Group\, New York Theater Workshop\, the Exponential Festival\, and on the internet. \n\n\n\nIN CONVERSATION WITH\nPatrick Zakem (he/him) – Creative Producer at Steppenwolf Theatre CompanyPatrick Zakem is a director\, producer\, and presenter of performance across form. He is the Creative Producer at Steppenwolf\, where he stewards the theater’s productions and presentations from inception to performance. He also directs Steppenwolf’s LookOut Series\, which he co-founded in 2016\, presenting hundreds of performances each year from Chicago-based performing artists across discipline. Outside of Steppenwolf\, he has produced work at Ars Nova\, Future Tenant and bubble:PGH. As a director\, his video productions of the short plays Night Safari and The Old Country by Tracy Letts earned a NYTimes Critics Pick in 2021. Patrick serves as Board Chair at Links Hall\, the 47 year-old dance organization currently winding down operations.
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SUMMARY:Silence Speaks: Writing Visuals
DESCRIPTION:Come join the Chicago Audiomakers Collective and The Understudy for a special listening party.\n\n\nTogether we’ll listen to Silence Speaks: Writing Visuals\, a story about a famous mime in 1960’s Russia. At a time when words were dangerous\, he found a way to speak up by using silence. Snap Judgment’s John Fecile wanted to tell his story but he faced a challenge: how to translate a visual medium into audio. John will be on hand to discuss the making of Silence Speaks and to answer your questions about the art of audio storytelling. \n \nJohn Fecile is an audio producer\, filmmaker\, and storyteller. His work has appeared on NPR and been featured in The Guardian\, The New York Times\, Snap Judgment\, and Al Jazeera. He has won awards in the US and UK\, including Bronze at the 2017 Third Coast International Audio Festival for his documentary Blink Once for Yes. \n \nChicago Audiomakers Collective is a group that exists to foster and grow the audio community in Chicago. We believe that Chicago is full of incredible talent and it’s a city where things are undeniably happening. But\, we as a community of artists\, producers\, and talent\, aren’t as connected as we want to be. \nThey host regular events and provide resources like a audiomakers directory and vendor map for both professionals and hobbyists alike. \n \nCheck them out at http://chiaudiocollective.com/ or follow them on Instagram @chiaudiocollective.
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SUMMARY:DRAMATURGAS CHILENAS: A Staged Reading and Dicussion
DESCRIPTION:A teenage girl as she confronts her sexual identity\, and the conservative adults in her life\, while being targeted by an online scandal.\n\n\nPlease join us for a staged reading of scenes from Sentiments by Carla Zúñiga M.\, in a new English-language translation by Susan E. Bowen and Yael Prizant. Set in 2013 Santiago\, Chile\, Zúñiga’s play considers a teenage girl as she confronts her sexual identity\, and the conservative adults in her life\, while being targeted by an online scandal. \n \nThe reading will be followed by a conversation about Dramaturgas Chilenas: Plays by Chilean Female Writers in the Early 21st Century (Methuen Drama\, 2026) a collection of five new\, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning\, female playwrights from Chile\, moderated by Anne García-Romero. \n \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Understudy and the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame. \n \nCast \nNelly María Charín Álvarez \nMaría Teresa Sandra Delgado \nMiss Francisca Meighan Gerachis \nPato Piñata Liam Bouza Díaz \n\n\nPlaywrights: \n \nXimena Carrera is a Chilean actor\, playwright\, producer\, screenwriter and teacher. In 1997\, she founded the theatre company\, The Trumpet\, with actor and director Sebastián Vila. Her works include Por encargo del olvido\, Naturaleza Muerta\, Medusa\, and Ningún pájaro canta por cantar. She’s the 2010 winner for Best Play from the Chile Drama Critics Circle. \n \nNona Fernández is a Chilean actor\, playwright and novelist. Her plays include El Taller\, winner of the 2012 Altazor y Nuez Martín prizes\, Liceo de niñas\, and Paren la Música\, winner of the 2021 Best Play from the Chilean Drama Critics Circle. Her award-winning novels include Mapocho\, Space Invaders and Chilean Electric. \n \nLeyla Selman is a Chilean actor\, poet\, and playwright. She is a member of the Colectivo Frío\, a collective focusing on art\, theatre and film. Her plays include El mejor truco de magia jamás visto\, Ifigenia\, Otra Muerta Anunciada\, La Ciudad de la Fruta and Los Ojos de Lena. She’s the 2024 winner for Best Play from the Chile Drama Critics Circle. \n \nIsidora Stevenson is a Chilean playwright\, director and teacher. Her works include Campo\, Hilda Peña\, Réplica\, Guerra\, Bernarda\, El nudo\, Informe de una mujer que arde\, Soledad Escobar\, Niebla\, Mi corazón es un ancla\, Fin\, and Amanda Labarca. She’s the 2014 winner of the Chile National Theater Festival. \n \nCarla Zúñiga M. is a Chilean actor\, playwright and teacher. In 2012\, she founded the company\, La Niña Horrible\, with Javier Cassanga. Her works include Sentimientos\, La trágica agonía de un pájaro azul\, and El amarillo sol de tus cabellos largos. She’s the 2020 winner for Best Play from the Chile Drama Critics Circle. \n \nTranslators: \n \nSusan E. Bowen is a director\, translator and devisor. She has served as Artist in Residence at the Pritzker Pucker Studio Lab at Northwestern University\, and as the Workshop Coordinator for the Physical Theater Festival Chicago. Susan has trained with Adam Versényi\, Wynn Handman\, and SITI Company. She holds an M.F.A. in Directing from Northwestern University\, and a B.A. in Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. \n \nConstanza Brieba is a Chilean director\, actor\, translator and arts administrator. She studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. She has served as a theatrical translator in Chile for the British Council\, the North American Institute of Culture and the French Institute of Culture. Her theatrical translations have been produced in Chile\, England and Switzerland. \n \nYael Prizant is an adapter\, translator\, devisor\, and dramaturg. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre\, an M.F.A. in Dramaturgy and has taught at UCLA\, the University of Notre Dame\, and Johns Hopkins SAIS. Her book\, Cuba Inside Out: Revolution and Contemporary Theatre\, investigates effects of politics and globalization on the stage. She has translated works of Cuban playwrights and is the dramaturg for Máscaramentos at the Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. \n \nAlexandra Ripp is a dramaturg\, translator and arts administrator. She has worked at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas\, Carolina Performing Arts\, Five College Dance\, and most recently with movement-based artist nora chipaumire. She served as co-editor of Imagined Theaters: Chile. She holds an MFA and DFA from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University. \n \nAndrea Thome is a Chilean/Costa Rican-American playwright and translator. Recent plays: Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes); Cymbeline (modern English ‘translation’); A Dozen Dreams (installation); Pinkolandia (multiple U.S. productions; translated into Russian). Spanish-English translations include Guillermo Calderón’s Neva (Public Theater\, CTG) and Rodrigo García’s You Should Have Stayed Home\, Morons (Radar LA). \n \nEditors: \n \nDr. Coca Duarte is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile School of Theatre. She’s the author of Writing the Scene\, Tracing the Present: Dramatic Strategies of the Chilean Theater 2007-2017 (2023). Her plays include Juana de Arco\, Mala Leche\, Mal and Plaga. \n \nDr. Anne García-Romero is Professor of Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. She’s the author of The Fornés Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of María Irene Fornés (2016). In 2018\, she received a Luksic Foundation grant to teach in Chile. Her plays include Paloma\, Juanita’s Statue\, Earthquake Chica\, and Santa Concepcíon. www.annegarciaromero.com \n \nDr. Inés Stranger is Professor of Theatre at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile School of Theatre. She’s the author of Playwriting Notebook: Theory\, Technique and Exercises (2011). Her plays include Cariño\, Malo\, Malinche and Tálamo. She received the Fondo del Libro award from Chile’s Council on Art and Culture.
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SUMMARY:YOGA PLAY by Dipika Guha
DESCRIPTION:A play reading of YOGA PLAY by Dipika Guha produced by Exit\, Pursued by a Play Reading.\n\n\nJoan has been hired to stabilize Jojomon\, a yoga apparel giant\, after its CEO is brought down by a fat-shaming scandal. But just as she finds her stride\, more trouble surfaces and sales plummet. Joan comes up with a plan so risky that it could make or break the company and her career—and what it requires from her CFO\, Raj\, is far beyond the call of duty. This sharp comedy asks what it takes to find your own authenticity in a world determined to sell enlightenment. \n \nCASTJOAN : Katy SullivanRAJ : Anand (Andy) NagrajFRED : Matthew C. YeeJOHN DALE / GURUJI : Scott AielloROMOLA / LUCY / LAUREN LILLY CLARK: Andrea San MiguelMR. KAPOOR/ ALAN CARR / STAGE DIRECTIONS : Ben MathewMRS. KAPOOR / NOOYI : Preeti Thaker
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