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To Kill a Teenager: seven sins of the juvenile mind
Free Street Theater has been creating with Chicago communities for over 40 years. Since 1969, Free Street Theater has been developing creativity as a force for social change.
Free Street Theater continues its 40th anniversary season with a new production created by the professional and teen artists in its ensemble, TO KILL A TEENAGER: SEVEN SINS OF THE JUVENILE MIND.
TO KILL A TEENAGER: SEVEN SINS OF THE JUVENILE MIND explores the amplified emotional minefield of adolescence, untangling seven contemporary obstacles to becoming adult. The intense emotional and physical performances emerge from a hellbox of violence, social pressure, anxiety, and cynicism. [Definition: Hellbox - street slang for a drawer that opens up to a mess of different things.]
TO KILL A TEENAGER presents a twisted variety show of emotional driving, suicidal pride, sacrificing identity to ease pain, striving for perfection, being a validation junky, assuming invincibility, and thinking life is elsewhere.
Every day Chicago teens appear in the news as victims and perpetrators of senseless violence. This week there is news of a 16 year old driving over another teen over a fight about a girl, and three Fenger High School students being arrested for the brutal murder of Darrion Albert in a mob brawl. Last school year, 34 Chicago teens were killed and another 290 were shot.
TO KILL A TEENAGER is a creative psychological exploration of the underlying turmoil in the developing juvenile mind that leads to such catastrophic behavior.
No one under 13 years of age will be permitted into the performance due to disturbing content, language, and gun-play.
All performances will have a post-show discussion with the artists. There will be free child care for Sat. Jan. 16 performance at 2pm. A special benefit performance will be held on Fri. Jan. 29 at 7 pm for the ensemble's tour to Thailand to collaborate with Makhampon Theater in Chaing Dao. The collaboration, supported by the MacArthur Foundation, will result in performances in Chaing Mai and Bangkok in April 2010.
TO KILL A TEENAGER: SEVEN SINS OF THE JUVENILE MIND
Written and Performed by the Free Street Theater ensemble
Directed and Facilitated by Ron Bieganski
Opens Sat. Jan. 9 at 2pm
Runs January 9 - extended through Feb. 27
Fridays 7pm and Saturdays 2pm
At Free Street Theater
1419 W. Blackhawk Ave. 3rd Floor at Pulaski Park
Chicago Illinois 60642
(3 blocks from Division Blue line. Free street parking)
$15 General , $5 Students, or pay what you can
Reservations (773) 772-7248
Cast: Ashley Echevarria, Olawunmi Faleti, Giovanni Gonzalez, Karina Gonzalez, Ashley Johnson, Mark Poore, Celina Rivera, Petra Samardzija
Playwright: The Free Street Ensemble
Director: Ron Bieganski
www.freestreet.org
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LocationFree Street Theater
1419 W. Blackhawk - Pulaski Park
Chicago, IL 60642
United States
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| Minimum Age: 13 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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