The Factory Theater Sets 2015 Season: ZOMBIE BROADS, DATING AND DRAGONS & More

The Factory Theater begins their 23rd season on a new schedule, in the fall of 2015. All shows will take place at 1621-23 W. Howard Street, at the new Factory Theater. The company is currently in the midst of a capital campaign that includes an Indiegogo campaign to help raise funds for the costs of building the theater.

Factory's Season 23 opens with Zombie Broads by ensemble members Corrbette Pasko and Sara Sevigny, and will be directed by Kevin Theis. Large productions with violence and a female-centric cast is fitting for Theis, who had great success as director of Lifeline Theater's Monstrous Regiment last summer. This is the third production co-written by Corrbette Pasko and Sara Sevigny, who previously paired on the Factory summer hit, The League of Awesome, as well as the Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins Festival piece, Thirty Days in the Rabbit Hole.

"It will be exciting to start a new season in our own place," says Artistic Director Scott OKen. "We're starting with a play that deals with a popular subject in a very Factory way, and right at Halloween. It's fitting. We get to embrace the scary stuff while laughing at it. That's what we do."

Zombie Broads tells the story of couple Maxine and Marco and their book club, 'The Zombie Broads.' Armed with unique weaponry, humor, and the knowledge that a zombie uprising is never really going to happen, they meet regularly and take their hobby seriously. Marco and Maxine's daughter, Shelby, would prefer to have normal parents and be a regular teen with a cell phone and a boyfriend. Add to that a scientist just trying to do the right thing in her age reversal research lab, and things are bound to go very, very wrong.

Following Zombie Broads is The Last Big Mistake, by ensemble member Ernest Frank Deak and directed by ensemble member Manny Tamayo (who is a playwright and director for the company, having won a Jeff Award with the Factory in 2014 for his script, Incident on Run 1217). Deak has written several Factory hits with OKen, and penned the late night speed-comedy Shameless Shamuses (which also appeared at Abbie Hoffman). 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.

The production features Factory ensemble members Kevin Alves, Timothy C. Amos, Kim Boler, Eric Roach, and Blake Dalzin.

It is a classic Factory wink that two plays focusing on disasters begin their season in the new space. However, the subject of disasters isn't complete without a mention of dating. Closing Season 23 is Dating and Dragons, penned by ensemble member Mike Ooi and directed by Scott OKen. Ooi previously directed 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."

ZOMBIE BROADS
by Corrbette Pasko and Sara Sevigny
Directed by Kevin Theis
Opens September 25, 2015
Closes October 31, 2015

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.

THE LAST BIG MISTAKE
by Ernest Frank Deak
Directed by Manny Tamayo
Opens January 22, 2016
Closes February 27, 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 May 6, 2016
Closes June 11, 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.

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