Strawdog Extends GREAT EXPECTATIONS Through 12/20

Strawdog Theatre Company and Artistic Director Hank Boland have announced the extension of the remount of Charles Dickens' classic Great Expectations, adapted by Gale Childs Daly and directed by Jason W. Gerace, through Saturday, Dec. 20 at Strawdog Theatre, 3829 N. Broadway St. The performance schedule is Thursdays -Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m. with a fully accessible performance at Victory Gardens Wednesday, Dec.10 at 8 p.m. with touch tour at 6:45 p.m. Single Tickets are $28 and on sale now. Subscriptions, group, senior and student discounts are also available. Tickets may be ordered online at strawdog.org or by calling 773.528.9696.

Great Expectations played to capacity crowds in its initial run and extensions, as well as having a sold out remount at Theatre on the Lake in summer 2014. It is also the recipient of the 2013-2014 Joseph Jefferson Award for Outstanding Direction by Jason Gerace. Gerace returns to Strawdog to remount Gale Childs Daly's bold reinvention of the classic novel where a cast of six (Amanda Drinkall, Caleb Fullen, Mary Winn Heider, Cody Proctor, Paige Smith and Mike Tepeli) quick-change their way through nearly 40 characters. Great Expectations, a masterpiece of Victorian literature tells the story of an orphan named Pip. Plucked from poverty and thrust into the upper class, lawyers and other minions hide Pip's benefactor's identity and motives as he tries to find love and a living in his radically changed circumstances ultimately revealing a fascinating web of secret identities and hidden pasts.

Additional Great Expectations cast includes TarynRosenquist, violinist; Bridget Schreiber, u/s Narrator/Estella and u/s Narrator/Miss Havisham; Travis Barnhart, u/s Joe; Kyle Curry, u/s Magwitch; and Jeff Kurysz, u/s Pip and Narrator/Herbert.

The production crew includes ensemble members John Kelly*, light designer; Brittany Dee Bodley*, costume design; Sam Hubbard*, fight choreographer; Mike Mroch*, production manger with Joanna Iwanicka, set design; Janelle Boudreau, props design/asst. set design; Hilary Holbrook, music director; Kathy Logelin, dialect coach; Sarah Hoeferlin, stage manager; Ian Olsen, technical director; and Kristof Janezic, master electrician.

Strawdog Theatre Company has partnered with the Access Project at Victory Gardens to present select fully accessible productions from its 2014 - 2015 season at Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, in the Prince Charitable Trust Rehearsal Room, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. The

Great Expectations performance, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 at 8 p.m. with touch tour at 6:45 p.m., is fully wheelchair accessible. Audio description, open captioning and a touch tour of elements from the production will also be provided. Immediately following that night's performance there is a post show discussion.

Future Fully Accessible performances include the world premiere adaptations of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 8 p.m. and The Pied Piper, Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 8 p.m. All touch tours begin at 6:45 p.m.

Photo by Chris Ocken

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