AFTER SEVENTEEN YEARS

CHICAGO'S PIONEER PHYSICAL THEATER  COMPANY

 

 

 

ANNOUNCES

OUR FINAL PERFORMANCE PIECE

 

 

A WORLD PREMIERE ORIGINAL WORK

MARCH 17th THROUGH APRIL 1st

AT THE CHOPIN THEATER DOWNSTAIRS

 

 

DON'T MISS THE LAST SHOW... EVER

 

Make reservations at http://graphomania.eventbrite.com

 

TEN PERFORMANCES ONLY!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GRAPHOMANIAis a meta-theatrical exploration of meaning, privacy and consequence in a paranoid world flooded with data.  Plasticene's performers gather, record, decode, struggle, and crunch information to save the state and themselves from unknown but imminent threat.  Masters of scenic innovation, the company uses three rolling chalkboards, complex video animations, experimental live sound, and textured lighting, to build mysterious, visceral, and striking theater.

 

 

 

 

Saturday 3/17

Sunday 3/18

Monday 3/19 

 

Preview

Preview

OPENING

7:30pm

3:00pm

7:30pm

 

Thursday 3/22

Friday 3/23

Saturday 3/24

Sunday 3/25

Performance

Performance

Performance

Performance

7:30pm

7:30pm

7:30pm

3:00pm

 

Thursday 3/29

Friday 3/30

Saturday 3/31

Sunday 4/1

Performance

Performance

Performance

Performance

7:30pm

7:30pm

7:30pm

3:00pm

 

 

The Chopin Theatre (downstairs)

1543 W Division Street

Chicago, IL 60642

 

Previews all seats $10

Performances $20 full price, $12 student rush half-hour before curtain, as available.

 

Make reservations  http://graphomania.eventbrite.com

 

More Info:

www.plasticene.com

773.960.9098

 

ABOUT PLASTICENE

 

Plasticene has been a pioneering force in experimental, avant-garde, and physical theater in Chicago since 1995.  Plasticene creates original theater inspired by a unique process of research and construction developed over the past seventeen years.  Plasticene assembles high-impact theater from the most plastic elements of theatrical creation: the body in action, objects in motion, light as revelation, and sound as sensation.  Plasticene performance and education work offers our community an experience that is playful, visceral, poetic, athletic, evocative, brave and endlessly creative.

 

 

GRAPHOMANIACREATIVE TEAM

 

Performer/Creators

Mark Comiskey Ð ensemble since 1998

Brian Shaw Ð co-founder 1995

Julia Neary Ð special guest performer

 

Light Design:

 

Carrie Kennedy- ensemble since 1998

 

Sound Composition and Performance:

Eric Leonardson Ð co-founder 1995

 

Production Video Design:

 

Mark Comiskey

Outside Eye:

Dexter Bullard Ð co-founder 1995

 

Video Art, Animations and Graphics:

Ted Hardin, Ian Munsell, Adrian Schindler

 

Video Performers:

Cameron Peart and Adrian Schindler

 

Text Contribution:

 

 

Cavan Hallman

 

Stage Management:

Anna Lafontant