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WALKABOUT THEATER presents THE CURE
Walkabout Theater Company, in association with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, is pleased to present THE CURE, a new ensemble-devised work exploring our relationship with disease, resilience and our pursuit of immortality.
Commissioned text by Emma Stanton is fused with interwoven narratives of movement, music, group choreography and funerary rites that investigate the fatigue of hope in the face of profound grief. Directed by Co-Artistic Director Kendra Miller, THE CURE will play June 1 18, 2016 at the Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Yates Gallery in Chicago. All performances are free to the public.
A decaying greenhouse beckons from the banks of a mighty river. A group of doctors, patients, and figures from mythology are pulled from different moments in history into the shelter of its glass walls by a common search - they are all seeking a cure for their condition, something that will transcend certain fate and immobilize death. In this magical purgatory, haunted by mythic figures, snake-oil salesmen and angels, time is frozen and a bargain can be struck. The seekers are must confront their own desire to stay stuck. How can we risk hope when a cure is nowhere to be found? What do we sacrifice when we fight to keep things the same? How much loss must we endure? THE CURE looks at how we plant the seeds of hope in an uncertain future and where we can find the strength to continue searching for a cure.
THE CURE is created and performed by Walkabout ensemble members Nigel Brown, McCambridge Dowd-Whipple, Cooper Forsman, Dana Murphy, Katie Mazzini, Thom Pasculli and Paul Scudder with Anirudh Nair and Amba-Suhasini Jhala.
THE CURE production team includes: Isaac Fosl-van Wyke (scenic design & visual art installation), Michael Banks (lighting design), Cooper Forsman (sound design) and Jeffery Hancock (costume design).
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LocationChicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Yates Gallery (View)
78 E Washington St
Chicago, IL 60602
United States
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