UIC Theatre 2020-2021 Season

2020–2021 THEATRE SEASON

A need for reckoning, a need for change...

“There’s a family of UIC-trained theatre students out there affecting their part of the world and that gives me a wonderful sense of pride.”

The 2020–2021 Mainstage Theatre season is dedicated to the memory of William “Bill” Raffeld, Associate Professor Emeritus, and UIC alumni class of 1955, in honor of his 57 years of teaching and dedication to UIC performing arts, who passed away in May of 2020.

Contributions may be made to the William F. Raffeld Award at UIC Chicago, https://theatreandmusic.uic.edu/donate Locate UIC William F. Raffeld Award, SAUIC, and follow instructions; or, checks payable of the University of Illinois Foundation, and mailed to: 1305 W. Green Street MC-386 Urbana, IL 61801

Truth can be scary. It can leave us in a world of confusion and mix up our core beliefs.

It often wakes us from the comfort of what we believe is real, tests our discipline, moves us, calibrates our direction and brings peace and relief along with it.

Join us this theatre season to experience new perspectives with stories of historic movements, courage, fear and loss that reveal a need for change in the reality we live today.

BOX OFFICE & TICKET INFORMATION THIS THEATRE SEASON IS

Free!

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Reverb KARLA CORONA, ALEX HOHNSEN, MARIEANGE LOUIS-JEAN, KHAMERON RILEY, AND PHIA RINGO DIRECTED BY JESSICA FISCH CO-CREATOR LYDIA DIAMOND BY

OCTOBER 2–11, 2020 Scan the QR Code for showtimes, tickets and the most current information.

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Summer of 2020. Covid quarantine. Black Lives that have always Mattered demand justice. Black and Brown people organize. Allies galvanize. Protests against police brutality turn violent. Statues topple. And in and between the love, the life, and the laughter there is a roar. A demand for justice. A promise of change.

Here in Chicago, a group of recent UIC alum writers turn the chaos of our times into an online experience that entertains, inspires, and makes for a viewing experience you won’t ever forget.

Post-Show Panel Discussion Topics: Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, and Hope

Love’s Labour’s Lost

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE DIRECTED BY RICHARD CORLEY

NOVEMBER 13–22, 2020

Love’s Labour’s Lost is one of Shakespeare’s early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I.

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It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to swear off the company of women for three years in order to focus on study and fasting. Their subsequent infatuation with the visiting Princess of France and her ladies makes them forsworn.

The play draws on themes of love and desire, reckoning and rationalization, and reality versus fantasy.

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Post-Show Panel Discussion Topics: Romance, Wit, and Loss

The Crucible

BY ARTHUR MILLER DIRECTED BY TASIA A. JONES

FEBRUARY 26– MARCH 7, 2021

When teenage girls are discovered trying to conjure spirits, the 17th century town of Salem explodes with accusations of witchcraft. The vicious trials that follow expose a community

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paralyzed by fear, religious extremism and greed.

“The Crucible was an act of desperation... when I began to think of writing about the hunt for Reds in America, I was motivated in some great part by the paralysis that had set it...

Nobody but a fanatic, it seemed, could really say all that he believed.” —Arthur Miller.

Sadly, we live in a polarized world of fake news and cancel culture so the play is still achingly relevant today as it was in 50’s during the McCarthy years when peoples’ livelihoods were being cancelled.

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Post-Show Panel Discussion Topics: Paranoia, Courage, and Grace

ms. estrada

BY THE Q BROTHERS COLLECTIVE DIRECTED BY JQ + JACKSON DORAN

APRIL 16–25, 2021

The Q Brothers return to UIC Theatre with their newest work, ms. estrada, inspired by Lysistrata by Aristophanes.

Liz Estrada is an honor college student who starts a move-

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ment to cancel the yearly Fraternity Olympics held on the campus of her university. In the time of Me Too, women take charge to bring down the male dominated university culture of sexual harassment and mansplaining.

UIC Theatre is proud to produce the world premiere of Ms. Estrada and welcomes back directors Jackson Doran and JQ who directed UIC Theatre’s hit production of Rome Sweet Rome.

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Post-Show Panel Discussion Topics: War, Sex, and Power

PANEL DISCUSSIONS Join us for free post-show panel discussions with the artists and special guests, curated

by UIC faculty member Richard Corley. Discussions will be live-streamed from our Facebook on the following dates:

Reverb Sunday, October 4, 2020 Topics: Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, and Hope Love’s Labour’s Lost Sunday, November 15, 2020 Topics: Romance, Wit, and Loss The Crucible Sunday, February 28, 2021 Topics: Paranoia, Courage, and Grace ms. estrada Sunday, April 18, 2021 Topics: War, Sex, and Power

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