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The Beats
Kerouac, Ginsberg, LeRoi Jones, Ferlinghetti, DiPrima. Beat poets took on 1950's mainstream America and dragged change kicking and screaming into the '60s. Hipsters and live jazz take over 16th Street.
Marilyn Campbell's adaptation premiered at Writers' Theatre in Glencoe with Kate Buckley directing and David Cromer as Ginsberg. Ann Filmer was Assistant Director. It was 1997, the year Allen Ginsberg died. "14 years later," Filmer states, "our country is in a very different place, having possibly reached the ceiling as a superpower. As we look ahead to what's next, Berwyn's 16th Street turns to The Beats. A young cast of five born 60 years after Kerouac dig into these poets' words, ideas, culture, lifestyle and ask: Are we progressing? Regressing? And do we still have a love affair with the road?
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LocationBerwyn Cultural Center
6420 16th Street
Berwyn, IL 60402
United States
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