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Wheels in Motion.
” The wheels are in motion. There’s nothing you can do to turn it back. The only thing you can do is cooperate. To play ball. To become part of us.” – Taylor
Most of the New Leaf and Curse of the Starving Class team met up recently at one of our favorite haunts for a fantastic first read through together. We gathered ourselves around some good food...
A New Funding Model for New Leaf
So, it’s official: New Leaf has a track record of putting up some of the best productions in Chicago with one of the smallest operating budgets in the city.
After closing the books on The Man Who Was Thursday, we find ourselves with more pleasant surprises – our ticket sales and two comparatively modest but vital grants have paid the entire production budget for our spring production of...
Opening Night – A Goon’s Eye View
An opening warning to all readers:
I heart New Leaf Theatre. They simply rock socks and I’m thrilled to be a part of their process. To avoid this post becoming an all-out unadulterated love-fest to the Leaf, I will make an effort to provide a tempered behind the scenes look at the experience of bringing Bilal Dardai’s adaptation of G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday to...
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re-writing Chesterton – thoughts from our dramaturg
G.K. Chesterton
New Leaf posed How do the stories we tell rewrite what we become? as its season question. The first play of the season is adapted from the G.K. Chesterton’s novel, The Man Who Was Thursday. This begs the question: how did Chesterton hope to rewrite the world with his novel, and how does the company hope to rewrite Chesterton in this production?
Considering Chesterton has an entry...
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Digging in.
Image Research for Curse of the Starving Class:
“A whole new world…”
“But we’d all be the same people.”
Under one splintering roof in the desolation of the California desert, four lone wolves try to pull themselves up by bootstraps that keep breaking, seeking to escape the prisons they’ve constructed in Sam Shepard’s blistering exploration...
