Curious Theatre Branch continues its 31st season with a world premiere from Curious Co-Founder Beau O’Reilly, A Packet of Holiness and Joy Will Come to You? (A Fable), November 1 - December 1 at Prop Thtr, 3502 N. Elston Ave. Press Night is Friday, Nov. 1 at 8 p.m. The performance schedule is Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. with an added performance Sunday, Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. Please note: there is no performance Friday, Nov. 29. Tickets are $15 or pay-what-you-can and are available at CuriousTheatreBranch.com.
A Packet of Holiness and Joy Will Come to You? (A Fable) finds the citizenry of a major city moving in and out of love, working on the recyclable revolution, stealing to survive and practicing their pre-apocalyptic jokes in a city quivering on the edge of collapse. Part comedy, part warning, the play explores themes of death and communal existence with a wink and a song or two.
The cast includes Beau O’Reilly, Vicki Walden, Brook Celeste, Miles Sennett, Timothy Rey and Tor Warren. The production team includes visual design by Julie Williams and direction by O’Reilly.
About Beau O’Reilly
Beau O’Reilly is a co-founder of the Curious Theatre Branch, Maestro Subgum and the Whole, The Crooked Mouth and a curator for the Rhinoceros Theater Festival, now in its 31st year. O’Reilly is a professor in the Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a noted performer and playwright. He has recently directed or appeared in works by Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Caryl Churchill, Eugène Ionesco and in new works by various Curious ensemble members.
About Curious Theatre Branch
Founded in 1988 by Jenny Magnus and Beau O'Reilly-as the Curious Theatre "Branch" of the alt-rock cabaret act Maestro Subgum and the Whole-Curious has consistently worked with an ensemble of artists in a non-hierarchical decision-making process, through which the philosophy of collaboration as a social force is explored on every level. Curious Theatre Branch has more than 100 full productions of world premiere shows in its over three decades of producing theatre. Curious has developed its own recognizable style, using an economy of means and production to make deeper and deeper, rather than larger and larger, work.
COMING UP NEXT FROM CURIOUS THEATRE BRANCH
"Xmas Time at Lost Pines"
by Matt Rieger
December 6 – 14
Prop Thtr, 3502 N. Elston Ave.
Performances: Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.
Tickets: $15 or pay-what-you-can
Curious Presents: "This is Not a Christmas Cabaret "
Various Performers
December 6 – 14
Prop Thtr, 3502 N. Elston Ave.
Performances: Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.
Tickets: $15 or pay-what-you-can
Get ready for a very merry, grumpy, quixotic holiday season – Curious style – with two new Curious productions. Xmas Time at Lost Pines is an anti-Christmas one-act about three strangers in a strange land, meeting by chance at a tree farm that may or may not be on fire. Existential ennui and holiday grouch are shared, along with a flask or two and a growing sense that something here just isn’t right.
Xmas Time at Lost Pines runs concurrently with Curious Presents: This is Not a Christmas Cabaret, in which artists, singers and storytellers perform short works on solstice, holiday and anti-holiday themes.
Curious Theatre Branch continues its 31st season a world premiere from Curious Co-Founder Beau O’Reilly, A Packet of Holiness and Joy Will Come to You? (A Fable), November 1 - December 2 at Prop Thtr, 3502 N. Elston Ave. Press Night is Friday, Nov. 1 at 8 p.m. The performance schedule is Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. with an added performance Sunday, Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. Please note: there is no performance Friday, Nov. 29. Tickets are $15 or pay-what-you-can and are available at CuriousTheatreBranch.com.