The Etcetera Festival Celebrates Variety in Performance

The Mill presents the seventh incarnation of the Etcetera Festival, a celebration of variety in performance. Etcetera VII opens Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 8pm at the Prop Thtr 3502 N. Elston, Chicago in the rear theatre. Run time is approximately one hour and fifteen minutes; there is no intermission.

Etcetera VII will run Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 PM, and Sunday at 7 PM March 27-30. Programming will alternate evenings so that Program A will run Thursday and Saturday and Program B will run Friday and Sunday. Admission for one evening is $15 and Festival Passes, which allow entry to both programs, are $20. 

The Mill Presents Etcetera VII

Etcetera VII is four nights of contemporary, experimental, progressive, and interdisciplinary live performance.  The length of each piece varies from 5-15 minutes.  The show is produced in association with The Prop Thtr.  Etcetera VII is comprised of the following pieces:

PROGRAM A

•    On Travel by Artistic Director Jaclyn Biskup
    -An overhead projector piece freely adapted from the work of Alain de Botton, Xavier de Maistre, et al.

•    Killing David Mamet by Jacob Juntunen, directed by Kit McKay -A short, absurd play about a playwright who seeks to kill all of America's playwrights in order to be heralded as America's Greatest Living Playwright. 

•    Where were you when… directed by Stephanie Sherline, presented by One Group Mind
    -A series of monologues dealing with the all too rapid rate of information dissemination.

•    Sweetline choreographed and performed by Julia Rae Antonik and Jonathan Meyer
    -A fusion of capoeira and contemporary Javanese, and Balinese dance re-examines gender roles in the duet dance tradition.

•    Vernon Tonges'
     -Musical Performance

•    The Sling is the Eye patch of the Body by Matt Test, presented by Ooftish Theatre
    -A radio adventure where sound is not the subjugated medium through which we recreate the world but the world itself.

•    Myra Mo written and performed by Shanna Shrum
    -An unapologetic and world-worn woman at the end of her life teaches her oppressed niece about living.

PROGRAM B

•    The Story of Figs by Dave Snyder, staged and performed by company member Megan Larmer.
     -  A lyric monologue exploring the nature of love, longing and disappointment.

•    Subject Matter Created and Destroyed by Matt Reiger, presented by Illegal Drama
    -A circular discussion on creation not as a means to an end in the form of a product, but its own end per se; including formal wear,
building blocks and a human bowling ball.

•    Curious Dangerous Installation presented by Collision Theatre Company
    -An ensemble created performance piece inspired and derived from Tom Horan's new play Curious Dangerous. 

•    'saturation' choreographed and performed by Jocelyn Kelvin, presented by (pataphorical)
    -The surrealist, movement based, adventure of a girl on a search for connection in an objectifying, capitalist society.  

•    Amy Sumpter's original stand-up comedy

•    Oh, The Humanity by Will Eno, a Chicago premiere, presented by Open Cage Ensemble
    -Two people and their two chairs seek to find meaning and direction in life.

Prior to curtain time, patrons may explore installation performances created by Anatomy Collective's founder and Artistic Director Stephanie Acosta.

A full description of Etcetera VII's programming is available at www.themilltheatre.org
 
Prop Thtr is opening its 27th season as Chicago's oldest and most productive off-loop new work Theater, a founding member of the burgeoning National New Play Network. 

Tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets at www.themilltheatre.org. 

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