THE ART OF ADAPTATION Festival Returns June 22-24
By: Julie Musbach Jun. 08, 2018
City Lit Theater will present THE ART OF ADAPTATION, its eleventh juried festival of world premiere adaptations of non-dramatic material, on June 22, 23 and 24, 2018 at its home at 1020 West Bryn Mawr Avenue. Six adaptations were selected following a nationwide call for submissions, and each was awarded a $200.00 prize. A jury of local theater professionals will select a best in show piece and award an additional $300 cash prize to its adapter.
- CAPACITY FOR CURIOSITY, adapted by Brian Pastor from a YouTube interview with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Directed by Erica Vannon.
ROSCO, an advanced A.I. created by NASA to navigate interstellar space, encounters a dilemma when his curiosity and other emotive levels are boosted in preparation for launch.
- LAST NIGHT OF THE WORLD, adapted by Jake Gonnella, from the short story by Ray Bradbury. Directed by Zoe Rosenfeld.
A couple returns home from work to the realization that the world will cease by the next morning. They do exactly as any of us would do.
- THE MANIFESTO, Book & Lyrics by Germaine Shames, Music by Nadav Amir-Himmel. A musical re-imagining of the drafting of the world's second most influential book. Directed by Molly Lyons.
Can capitalism and democracy co-exist? Ask Jenny Marx.
Saturday, June 23, 7:30 PM
- OF BULLS & BULLIES, adapted by Bennett Ayres from the Greek Minotaur myth. Ayres will direct his script.
Theseus is strong, handsome. The Minotaur is strange, hideous. Simple. But maybe it's time we reexamine who's the hero and who's the monster...
- TIRED/MERRY, adapted by Marjorie Muller from the poem Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Directed by Danielle Szabo.
Two self-proclaimed, Depression Era sadgirls live all the live they can before daybreak sweeps one of them off to married life.
- THE CARPENTER, THE FLOOD & THE FART, adapted by Larry Rinkel from Chaucer's "Miller's Tale." Directed by Cathy Crocco.
An updated, all-rhymed version of Chaucer's story.
Sunday, June 24, 2:00 PM
A marathon of all six plays in the festival.
- CAPACITY FOR CURIOSITY
- LAST NIGHT OF THE WORLD
- THE MANIFESTO
Intermission
- OF BULLS & BULLIES
- TIRED/MERRY
- THE CARPENTER, THE FLOOD & THE FART
LISTING INFORMATION
THE ART OF ADAPTATION11TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL
June 22-24, 2018
City Lit Theater
1020 W. Bryn Mawr Ave., Chicago
Ticket prices for The Art of Adaptation are $15 on Friday and Saturday, June 22 and 23, and $20 for the marathon on Sunday, June 24. Tickets can be reserved by going to www.citylit.org or by calling 773-293-3682. ABOUT CITY LIT
For thirty-eight years, City Lit Theater has been dedicated to the vitality and accessibility of the literary imagination. City Lit produces theatrical adaptations of literary material, scripted plays by language-oriented playwrights, and original material. City Lit is in the historic Edgewater Presbyterian Church building at 1020 West Bryn Mawr Avenue. We are two blocks east of both the Bryn Mawr Red Line stop and the #36 Broadway and the #84 Peterson buses. We are one block west of the #147 Sheridan and #151 Sheridan buses. Divvy bike stations are located at Bryn Mawr & Lakefront Trail, and at Broadway & Ridge at Bryn Mawr. The metered street parking pay boxes on Bryn Mawr have a three-hour maximum duration and are free on Sundays. $10 valet service is available at Francesca's Bryn Mawr at 1039 W Bryn Mawr diagonally across the street from us on the SW corner of Kenmore and Bryn Mawr and is available whether you are dining at the restaurant or not. There are additional details about parking and dining options at www.citylit.org. City Lit is supported by the Alphawood Foundation, the MacArthur Funds for Arts and Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the Ivanhoe Theater Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council Agency and is sponsored, in part, by A.R.T. League.
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