Chicago Shakespeare Announces Additions to World’s Stage Series
(© Marc Enguerand)
Chicago Shakespeare Theater has announced two additions to its 2008/09 World’s Stage Series, its international programming initiative.
Rwandan theater ensemble Urwintore will perform an 80-minute adaptation of The Investigation by Peter Weiss in French with English supertitles, January 21-31. Dorcy Rugamba directs this re-imagined work that draws startling parallels about human complicity between the 1994 Rwandan conflict and the atrocities of the Holocaust.
The Polish musical ensemble Karbido will present its acclaimed musical invention The Table, April 30-May 10. A seemingly innocuous table is transformed into an endlessly varied musical instrument by the four men in suits seated around it. The resulting hour-long concert is a fully immersive musical experience and a unique live theater event.
CST’s World’s Stage series will also include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed by artists from India and Sri Lanka, November 25-December 7, and Sweet William, a salute to the Bard performed by Great Britain’s Michael Pennington February 3-22.
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