Play Updates
A developmental radio play version of Dandelions is being generously funded by Theater on the Lake and the Chicago Park District through the 2020 Theater on the Lake Play Commission and the show will be produced in fall 2020 by MPAACT for their Radio Series. The radio play of Dandelions will be directed by Erica Faye Watson.
Dandelions bears witness to how we deal with trauma as a community. In this play, set in 2018, King Davis is a recovering addict whose only legacy is the six-flat building in Bronzeville that his mother owns and it is in immediate threat of being taken from his family due to mounting back taxes. King swoops in to save the day only to find out his mama has entrusted the building’s future to a new neighbor. How can King finally show who he is when the people around him only see him for who he was? Stay tuned for production updates!
The world premiere of Pulled Punches has been postponed due to COVID-19 and is coming in 2021. The show will be produced by MPAACT!
Pulled Punches
by: Tina Fakhrid-Deen
Directed by: Lauren Wells-Mann
On an express train home to watch Scandal, Isis gets all the elements of her favorite show – drama, passion and heart-stopping suspense when she collides into a professor who dares to swirl into her orbit and take her breath away. A heady mix of Baraka’s The Dutchman and the mythos of Isis and the Seven Scorpions, PULLED PUNCHES investigates identity politics in the age of being “woke” and well-intentioned. How long should we pull punches before we let them fly? Does that choice promote true connection, violence, insanity or freedom?
Show Postponed until 2021 due to COVID-19
Thursdays – Saturdays 8pm Sundays 3pm
The Greenhouse Theater Center
2257 North Lincoln Avenue
