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69 Moments of Life
Actor, You're Killing Me
Air Tight Security
Almost True Adventures ...
Amazing Improvised Musical
Animal Farm
Ballerina on a Horse
Beautiful Man
Berserker
Caffe di Amore or ...
Check the Box
Clearing Hedges
Corned Beef
Countless
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Death Blow II: The British ...
Demon Pope
Diagnosis: Jew Pain ...
Disco Prophecies
Ethan's Gift
Far From Springer
Fixed Boundry
Forty Love
Got Water
I Can't Believe They're Not Oriental!
Idiot Machine ...
In Cahoots
John Muir: Watch, Pray, Fight
Late Night Talk Show
Ludlow and Canal
Magic at the Fringe
Man 1, Bank 0
Marx in Soho
Mixed Signal
Mother: A Modern Buddhist ...
Naked Inquisition
nEO - urrealists present ...
Neon's Crazy Blue
Nharcolepsy
Original Action Pack
Park - N - Ride
Passages
Sandwich
Scabaret!
Searching for God in Kerala
Seventh Game of the World Series
Shadow Kissers
Strobe Vision
This World is Not My Home
Total Improvisation - ...
Train Stories
Tripping on the Equator ...
Twinspeak
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Jennifer Barclay Barclay Studios Chicago Chicago, IL 50 min Solo Performance Children over the age of 14 could enjoy it. There is some profanity. $8 |
A one-woman play straight from New York, Chicago, Vienna, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Probes the controversy surrounding the famed Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Babe was an outspoken, ebullient, Olympic athlete who dominated seven sports and annihilated her competition. Chicago actor/playwright Jennifer Barclay plays seven characters, ripping open a celebrity's private tortures and igniting passionate theatre. "Soaring work of dramatic athleticism." (ChicagoTheatre.com), "FOUR STARS"(Metro & Three Weeks, Scotland).
EXIT THEATRE 156 Eddy Street
Thursday 4 8:30 PM
Sunday 7 4:00 PM
Wednesday 10 7:00 PM
Thursday 11 10:00 PM
Friday 12 7:00 PM
Sunday 14 2:30 PM
Names of Directors: Jay Paul Skelton and Jennifer Shook
Performer: Jennifer Barclay
Designers:
Matt Krause, sound
Jillienne Buena, costumes
CLEARING HEDGES, which is Barclay's first play, has been in development since 1998. It was originally workshopped at Northwestern University under the mentorship of Mary Zimmerman (Tony Award winner for Outstanding Director of a Play, 2002). CLEARING HEDGES had its international premiere in Austria at The International Theatre of Vienna, and then went on to earn rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2002 in Scotland. CLEARING HEDGES has also been produced in New York (Downstairs Cabaret) and Chicago (Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co).
Biographies:
Barclay Studios Chicago (Producing Company) is an artist collective
based in Rochester, NY and Chicago. The members are Jennifer Barclay (actor,
playwright, producer, and teacher), Carol Barclay (studio potter and lecturer),
and James Barclay (landscape photographer). For more information about the
artists and their current work, please visit www.BarclayStudios.com.
JENNIFER BARCLAY (Playwright/ Performer) Chicago acting credits include: Haymarket Eight at Steppenwolf, Piano and Twelfth Night at Court Theatre, and From Both Hips at Mary-Arrchie. Jennifer has performed regionally with Peninsula Players (WI) and Acadia Repertory (ME), and internationally with the International Theatre of Vienna (The Mousetrap). She has performed her one-woman play, Clearing Hedges, in Austria, Scotland (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), New York, and Chicago. Jennifer is a graduate of Northwestern University, and a recipient of the Mary Margaret Linn Theatre award. She currently resides in Chicago where she teaches acting at Piven Theatre Workshop, Court Theatre, and Apple Tree Theatre.
JAY PAUL SKELTON (Director) most recently directed Bernstein’s Candide for the Chicago Cultural Center and The Marriage of Figaro for Opera Theatre Highland Park. Other recent credits include Two by Harry with Cobalt, the Jeff Recommended production of Death on a Pink Carpet for Live Bait Theatre and the Reader Critic’s Choice sketch comedy revue Coyote Pretty at Improv Olympic. He directed the world premiere of Clearing Hedges for the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Jay received the 2001 Achievement Award Scholarship for Young Directors from the National Theatre Conference and was named a Finalist/First Alternate for the 2000-2002 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors. He also adapted and directed To Live as Variously as Possible about the life and work of poet Frank O'Hara for TimeLine Theatre for which he received a 2000 After Dark Award for Outstanding New Play Adaptation. In addition, Jay received a 1994 After Dark Award for his direction of Porcelain at Eclipse Theatre and is a two-year veteran of the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Other Chicago credits include working with such theatres as Goodman, Lifeline, Mary-Arrchie, Next, About Face, Organic, CollaborAction, Circle, Chicago Dramatists and Theatre on the Lake. A native of Massachusetts, Jay received his M.F.A. from The Theatre School at DePaul University and is currently on the teaching staff of the Actor’s Center of Chicago and Act One Studios.
JENNIFER SHOOK (Associate Director) has also recently directed:
The Vanity Project with Handsome Theatricals, Map with Caffeine Theatre,
and They Said We Were Soldiers at Collaboraction’s Sketchbook. Also
a freelance dramaturg, she's worked with over 20 companies in Chicago, as
well as Dallas Theater Center and yes! The San Francisco Mime Troupe, when
she shook the tent for the "earthquake" in Soul Suckers from Outer
Space. Jennifer teaches at Columbia College Chicago.
MARY ZIMMERMAN (Mentor for original workshop)Tony award winner for Outstanding Director of a Play 2002 for the current Broadway hit Metamorphoses. Zimmerman is a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant," and is an Artistic Associate at the Goodman Theatre of Chicago.