Lookingglass Theatre Company proudly announces its 2010-2011 season, featuring three new productions by Ensemble Members Laura Eason and David Kersnar and Northwestern University's Amanda Dehnert. Lookingglass' 23rd season features PETER PAN, ETHAN FROME, and THE LAST ACT OF LILKA KADISON.
The season kicks-off with Amanda Dehnert's bombastic, playful and darkly funny adaption of J. M. Barrie's PETER PAN, complete with innovative theatricality and aerial arts. Laura Eason, the writer and director whose AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS has played across the country, has written a smoldering adaptation of ETHAN FROME, by Edith Wharton, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence. Finally, THE LAST ACT OF LILKA KADISON, written by Nicole Behrman, David Kersnar and Abbie Phillips, directed by David Kersnar, is a hilarious and profoundly moving play that spans a woman's life from 1939 Warsaw to contemporary Los Angeles.
"We're thrilled to offer a season that covers a full range of age and experience, and offers all the characteristics that have always defined Lookingglass- physical daring and grace, literary depth and beauty, invention, wit, and heart," comments Artistic Director Elect Andy White. "Our first show, PETER PAN, looks at life through the prism of childhood-with wonder and awe, yearning for flight, fear of pirates and fearsome crocodiles, and all the delight and terror that might accompany any child's dreams. ETHAN FROME drills deep into the choices made in middle age, and the fierce passions and regrets that accompany those choices and their consequences. And THE LAST ACT OF LILKA KADISON brings us an older woman looking back at her life, her loves, and her losses-a woman who is simply trying to make peace with the secrets and stories that have haunted her past."
The World Premiere of Dehnert's adaptation of PETER PAN will play from October 20 through December 12. Eason will direct ETHAN FROME from February 23 through April 17. The World Premiere of the Lookingglass Original THE LAST ACT OF LILKA KADISON will run from June 1 through July 24.
Subscriptions are on sale for the 2010-2011 Season. Performances will be held at Lookingglass Theatre Company, located inside Chicago's historic Water Tower Water Works, 821 N. Michigan Ave. at Pearson.
For more information or to order tickets, visit online at lookingglasstheatre.org.
