Vintage Theater Collective

We are excited to announce Vintage’s 2011 Season, as well as to share some changes that have been happening within our collective. The 2011 season will consist of two dark comedies:  Helen, a modern meditation on the Helen of Troy story by Ellen Mclaughlin and Woman School, a new adaptation of Moliere’s comedy School for Wives, by Eric Powell Holm (adaptor of Vintage’s popular 2009 production Misanthrope, or the Impossible Lovers).  We are thrilled to be spending our 2011 season as a resident company of Strawdog Theatre where all of our events and shows will be held this season and where we will have office space and a mailbox!
 
We will be kicking off the season with two fundraisers.  On December 5th, 2010 please join us for a staged reading of Eugene O’Neill’s classic family drama Long Day’s Journey into Night.  Don’t be fooled, this is no comedy, but it is a great play, full of tragedy, yet full of heart.  Second, back by popular demand, we will be hosting our second annual Sonnet Festival fundraiser “In Faith, I do not Love You with Mine Eyes…But ‘Tis my Loins that are Feeling it!” on January 15th, 2011.  Join us for this night of short new material based on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, it’s bound to be a blast [n.1: A party, esp. one that is very noisy or wild. Also, a good time, an enjoyable or exciting experience (chiefly U.S.). slang (Oxford English Dictionary)]!  Our season will then officially begin on May 1, 2011 with Helen.  Following Helen we are very excited to be partnering with Live Action Set, a Minneapolis-based physical theater company of which the Minneapolis Star Tribune has said: “This surprising melange of transgressive theater and dance is disturbingly funny.”  We will be hosting their upcoming production of 7-Shot Symphony that sets seven ancient myths in the Wild West. Yeehaw!  Woman School will go up in the fall of 2011, performance dates TBA.
 
Coming soon: please check out the new face of our website vintagetheatercollective.org for Vintage news and to see the bios and photos of our newest collective members.  Also coming soon, look for us on Strawdog Theatre’s website strawdog.org.  We wish to thank two new supporters that are, in part, making this season possible - the City of Chicago’s Community Arts Assistance Program and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.  We look forward to seeing you all this upcoming season, and thank you for your support.