THE LAST BIG MISTAKE and More Set for The Factory Theater's 23rd Season

After an initial delay due to permit processing, The Factory Theater announces season with new dates in new Rogers Park theater. The Factory Theater is ready to begin their 23rd season of shows, which will now consist of two productions. A third will kick off the 24th season in the Fall of 2016, with the remaining Season 24 shows to be announced at a later date. All shows, as previously planned, will take place at 1623 W. Howard Street, at the new Factory Theater.

Factory's Season 23 now opens with The Last Big Mistake, by ensemble member Ernie Deak and directed by ensemble member Manny Tamayo (Jeff Award winner, original script, Incident on Run 1217). Deak has written several Factory hits with Artistic Director Scott OKen, and penned the late night speed-comedy Shameless Shamuses. Mistake is a gritty tale of two seasoned dames, who make some unseasoned decisions and get caught up in a downward spiral of revenge and murder. It's classic Factory style to open their own space with a show called The Last Big Mistake.

Following The Last Big Mistake is Dating and Dragons, penned by ensemble member Mike Ooi and directed by OKen. The dating world and the gaming community both get the Factory treatment in the second production of Season 23. Ooi previously directed the 80s cop movie tribute, Street Justice: Condition Red with Factory, and has appeared in several productions with Lifeline Theatre and Adventure Stage. This is his first Factory theater script.
"We tell the classic story of Boy Meets Girl," says OKen. "There are rules to telling that kind of a story. We are going to break them."

Season 23 then concludes in order for The Factory to get back on their proposed new schedule. Beginning Season 24 is the much-anticipated Zombie Broads, by ensemble members Corrbette Pasko and Sara Sevigny, directed by Kevin Theis. This is the sixth production co-written by Corrbette Pasko and Sara Sevigny, who previously paired for Factory on the The League of Awesome, as well as the Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins Festival piece, Thirty Days in the Rabbit Hole. Broads combines a book club, a well-intentioned scientist, some conspiracy theorists, and a love story with lots of gore and snark in this Ode to All Things Undead.

The three shows will also be available via the Rogers Park Flex Pass.

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ABOUT THE 2016 LINEUP:

THE LAST BIG MISTAKE
by Ernie Deak
Directed by Manny Tamayo
Opens March 25, 2016
Closes April 30, 2016

In one savage night in the summer of '75, Lola Knight and Roxy Aguilar make a series of increasingly awful decisions, all of them surrounding a strange little package they were hired to transport. Meanwhile, the rightful owner of that package is in town, bent on revenge and leaving a trail of bodies in his murderous wake as he searches for his property. Lola and Roxy fight their way across town; and though the night is over, their troubles have only just begun. They really can't remember their first big mistake, but it's likely they won't forget their last big mistake.

DATING AND DRAGONS
by Mike Ooi
Directed by Scott OKen
Opens July 8, 2016
Closes August 13, 2016

Jack loves to play games. He's really good at knowing the rules, especially when the game involves swords, sorcery, and a dragon or two. But when he meets Diane and falls under her spell, which rules should he follow? How do you win at dating? Join Jack and his friends on a journey through the rules of dating, dragons, and doing the right thing.

ZOMBIE BROADS
by Corrbette Pasko and Sara Sevigny
Directed by Kevin Theis
Opens October 21, 2016
Closes November 26, 2016

Maxine and Marco, and their book club 'The Zombie Broads', have all the weaponry and knowledge they'll ever need for the zombie uprising. Their daughter, Shelby, is trained for the worst, but would really like to just get a cell phone and date her secret boyfriend. Besides, zombies won't happen. It's not like a scientist is accidentally gonna do anything stupid, right? By the way, you smell really good...delicious even...you should probably run.

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