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A
(Bearded) Lady
BLESSING
HER HEART
Break-Upocalypse
Carnival
Of Chaos: "Survival Tips For The Reckless"
Cemetery
Golf
Cockroach
De
Rerum Natura; Or, Love The One You Whip
Eat,
Pray, Laugh!
Fists
of Funny
FOOL
FOR A CLIENT
The
Fox
The
Frank Diary of Anne
The
Godling
Hell,
The Musical
I
Prefer Fur
Inside
Private Lives
J.Lo.Hew
JESUS
IN MONTANA: Adventures in a Doomsday Cult
Knitting
LandEscape
Legs
and All
Marriage:
a queer institution
MISSING:
fugue #9: wear a warm coat
No
Ordinary Nut
Open
Season, A Queer Performance Spectacular
Play
4 Play
Poste
Restante
PUBLIC
SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Comedy and Justice for All
Pulp
Scripture
Recess
Searching
for the Voice of the Third
Show
No Show
Spider
Baby the musical
Suicide
Me!
The
Surprise
The
Tao of Everest
Tater
Stew
tempestuous(ness)
or HIStory is Told by the Victors
The
Texas Chainsaw Musical!
Theatre
of the Battle
Ticonderoga
The
Unbearable Lightness of Raya
| Tempestuous(ness) or HIStory is Told by the Victors The Garage SATURDAY 12 5:30 PM SATURDAY 12 8:30 PM SUNDAY 13 2:30 PM SATURDAY 19 5:30 PM SATURDAY 19 8:30 PM SUNDAY 20 2:30 PM |
by scott baker MULTI-MEDIA, MATURE CONTENT, COARSE LANGUAGE, SMOKING OR FOG, WATER EXPLOSIONS, NOT FOR PEOPLE UNDER 14 |
tempestuous(ness), or HIStory is Written by the Victors--is a cautionary tale. Artistic Director Scott Baker employs one of Shakespeare's more psychologically complex works as a point of departure. His concept asks why Sycorax, former mistress of The Tempest's island, is missing from the Bard's play. A witch, single mom, and female ruler of a magical place, commanding monsters and fairies, yet Shakespeare reduces this fascinating character's life to a rambling expository monologue! Is this the Patriarchy asserting itself in post-Elizabethan England? An oblique comment on the rise of Colonialism against native peoples? Our investigation of these knotty political issues will be made vivid in a multi-disciplinary performance uniting magic, water in a processional performance.
written and directed by scott baker
Scott Baker is a veteran of Chicago Theatre. He and Charles Pike co-founded PUS in 1990 to produce the works of Samuel Beckett and their own original works. Scott has performed with Theatre of the Reconstruction, Prop Thtr., Organic Theater, The Theatre Police, Next Lab Theatre, Famous Door, Mary-Arrchie Theatre and many others in Chicago. He was part of the Joseph Jefferson Citation-winning ensemble for Mary Arrchie Theatre's production of Brian Friel's "The Freedom of the City". For PUS, he has acted, directed, written and done anything else necessary for their productions of "Unauthorized Beckett", "Sam I Am", "Glory Hole", "Pound Bound", "cries afar now faint now clear", "Dead Soldier Walks Home", "The Farmington Armada", "Fun with Dick and Perry", "Ghost Train Coming" and "Mrs. Warren's Profession". As a writer, his work has been performed in Chicago, New York, New Mexico and San Francisco. Away from the theatre, Scott is Vice President of Operations for digg.com, a social news Web site, but, hey, we all have our vices.