Steppenwolf to Host Special Event to Explore FAKE, 10/2

Steppenwolf Theatre of Chicago to set to offer a free event to explore Fake at the Steppenwolf Garage, Friday, 10/2.

The event will feature Fake Experts, with curators from the Field Museum and Chicago History Museum to investigate famous and fascintaing fakes, Fake Front Page, offering the opportunity to find the real article in The Onion, Fake Charming Men, with Chicago's own The Handsome Devilz performing as The Smiths, and a Fake Tour, allowing patrons to dig into displays from the Field, CHM, and Steppenwolf and sift the fakes from the facts.

The event will offer complimentary food and drink. Tickets are available for free, but an RSVP is required. Following the event, audiences are invited to attend the night performance of FAKE at Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theatre. Student rush, 2-for-1 tickets, and "20 for $20" group tickets are available.

FAKE takes place in 1914.  When renowned mystery writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle invites four guests to his English country home. Each visitor has a connection to the infamous "Piltdown Man," purported to be the missing link between ape and man - later exposed as a hoax. FAKE is written and directed by ensemble member Eric Simonson and features Kate Arrington, Francis Guinan and Alan Wilder, with Coburn Goss and Larry Yando. Swinging back and forth through time, FAKE investigates how "Piltdown" rattled assumptions about evolution, faith and science - and how we are transformed by our quest for the truth.

The design team for FAKE includes: Todd Rosenthal (sets), Karin Kopischke (costumes), Joe Appelt (lights) and Barry Funderburg (sound and composition). Rebecca Ann Rugg is the Dramaturg and Cecilie O'Reilly is the Dialect Coach. Michelle Medvin is the Stage Manager and Kathleen Petroziello is the Assistant Stage Manager.

FAKE was originally commissioned by the Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director, Barry Grove, Executive Producer with funds provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Committed to the principle of ensemble performance through the collaboration of a company of actors, directors and playwrights, Steppenwolf Theatre Company's mission is to advance the vitality and diversity of American theater by nurturing artists, encouraging repeatable creative relationships and contributing new works to the national canon. The company, formed in 1976 by a collective of actors, is dedicated to perpetuating an ethic of mutual respect and the development of artists through on-going group work. Steppenwolf has grown into an internationally renowned company of 42 artists whose talents include acting, directing, playwriting and textual adaptation. For additional information, visit www.steppenwolf.org.