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SUMMARY:Jackalope Theatre Presents the 17th Annual Newspaper Living Festival\, August 20 - 24
DESCRIPTION:Jackalope Theatre Company is proud to announce the schedule for the 17th Annual Living Newspaper Festival\, August 20 – 24\, at the Jackalope Theatre in the Broadway Armory\, 5917 N. Broadway. The Living Newspaper Festival is inspired by the 1930s Living Newspapers of the Federal Theatre Project that created stories based on recent events. Each night\, the Festival includes five one-act plays inspired from recent news headlines. \nThe 17th Annual Living Newspaper Festival includes:\nPicture Day\nBy Madie Dopelt\nDirected by Breon Arzell\nCast includes Miriam Lee\, Niko Kourtis and Reilly Oh\nInspired by Epstein-Linked Rumors Ignite Panic Over School Photos in Coulee Dam \nWhen Reddit users loosely link a school photography company with the Epstein files\, parents in Coulee Dam\, Washington express their concerns. As the school decides how to handle their upcoming picture day\, the parents take matters into their own hands. \nLet them East Cake\nBy Anelga Hajjar\nDirected by Kaiser Ahmed\nCast includes Yourtana Sulaiman\, Chris Chmelik and Claudia Quesada\nInspired by GLP-1 drugs are changing how Americans eat. Food companies are racing to catch up \nIt’s Selma’s birthday but the cake is uneaten and something seems terribly off. Can her mom and boyfriend get to the bottom of what’s infected her? Let them Eat Cake\, exposes the insidious consequences of our bodies being injected with public opinion. \nFellow Mortals\nBy Aurora Real de Asua\nDirected by Janyce Caraballo\nCast includes Sierra Phan\, Katie Bevil and Z Mowry\nInspired by Mouse study shows repeated cloning causes grave genetic mutations \nThree individuals\, trapped in a cage. Who put them there? And why? And how the hell are they going to get out? \nTurning\nBy Netta Walker\nDirected by Sydney Charles\nCast includes Jalbelly Guzman and Morgan Lavenstein\nInspired by Newly declassified FBI documents detail UFO sighting by Anoka officers — and one of them filmed it \n2048. Post Civil War. On a forest creek bed\, south of the Mason Dixon\, a young woman flees a colony only to be confronted by a relic of the past. \nThe Day The Night Came Down\nBy Ike Holter\nDirected by Stephanie Diaz\nCast includes Laura Lodewyck and Pedro Jimenez\nInspired by Newly declassified FBI documents detail UFO sighting by Anoka officers — and one of them filmed it \nAfter a life changing encounter with an unexplained aerial phenomena\, a rookie cop weighs the cost of speaking truth to power. \nThe running time is 75 minutes with no intermission. The performance schedule is Thursday\, Aug. 20 at 7:30 p.m.\, Friday\, Aug. 21 at 7:30 p.m.\, Saturday\, Aug. 22 at 7:30 p.m.\, Sunday\, Aug. 23 at 2 p.m. and Monday\, Aug. 24 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for August 20 – 24 are $20 – $35 and are available at JackalopeTheatre.org or by calling 773.340.2543.
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/jackalope-theatre-presents-the-17th-annual-newspaper-living-festival-august-20-24/
LOCATION:Jackalope Theatre Company\, 5917 N. Broadway\, Chicago\, IL\, 60660\, United States
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