Magnus' THE STRANGE Set for Nashville Premiere

Kristin McCalley Landis and Tamara Todres will star in the Nashville premiere of Jenny Magnus' The Strange, produced by The Chicago Talking Machine Company at the Centennial Black Box Theater, 211 27th Avenue North, March 21-26.

Tickets for The Strange are now available at www.thestrange.brownpapertickets.com. Nashville-based playwright Nate Eppler (whose critically acclaimed Good Monsters is now in its world premiere production by Nashville Repertory Theatre) will lead a conversation with Jenny Magnus following the March 25 performance.

In Magnus' play, a woman and a girl meet by chance late one night. They candidly trade truths and tales and try to figure each other out. Over time, they meet twice more in the same room and wonder if their first meeting changed each other. The Strange asks if one person can ever truly influence another, and if we have any control over how others absorb the things that we share with them.

The Chicago Talking Machine Company is a music, theatre and film production company. Founded in Chicago in 2009, it is now based in Nashville. To learn more, go to www.chicagotalkingmachine.com.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:

Jenny Magnus (Playwright) is a writer, performer, composer, musician, director, and teacher who is a founding co-Artistic Director of the Curious Theater Branch, an all-original theater company, now entering its 28th year. She is the author/creator of plays that have been produced at Steppenwolf Theater, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Aetheneum Theater, Prop Thtr, and on tour throughout America and Europe. In 2011, Magnus and her company finished a year-long developmental residency at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, culminating in a commissioned performance work called Still In Play: A Performance of Getting Ready. She has written and performed in many solo performances as well. She was a long-time member of the band Maestro Subgum and the Whole and made multiple records with them, as well as three solo recorded CDs, has a current band called The Crooked Mouth, and is represented and distributed by UvuLittle Recordings.

In addition to running the Curious Theater Branch and making her own work, Jenny Magnus is a long-time Adjunct Faculty member with Columbia College Chicago in the Art and Art History department, and at the School of the Art Institute Writing Program. She has taught performance and writing at The University of Chicago, the Chicago Public Schools, the Metropolitan Correctional Center of Chicago, The University of Illinois, and others. In 1998, Jenny Magnus was named among the Artists of the Year by the Chicago Tribune. In 2014, Observations of an Orchestrated Catastrophe: Plays and Performances, 9 plays and performances produced over 25 years, was published by JackLeg Press.

PRODUCTION DETAILS:

The Strange by Jenny Magnus

Location: Centennial Black Box Theater, 211 27th Ave N. Nashville, TN 37203.

Dates: March 21-23 and March 25 and 26

Times: All performances are at 7:30pm

Ticket Price: All tickets $10

Tickets: Available online at www.thestrange.brownpapertickets.com

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