A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - Summer 1994
A high-energy performance that transforms the park into an Athenian forest where lovers and fairies cross paths in a tangled web of woodland magic.
Lincoln Park / Jonquil Park -
Commissioned by the Wrightwood Neighbor's Conservation Association

MASQUE O'LANTERN - Fall 1994
Terrestrial boundaries evaporate with the fall of night and the autumnal ambiance transforms shadows into shapes, fear into fantasy, and ghosts
of the past reappear to tell their tales.
Tricks and treats provided!
Lincoln Park / Witches of Waveland Haunted House - invited by Chicago Park District

ABSOLUTE FARCES: TWO BY CHEKHOV
THE BEAST and OFFICE PARTY - Spring 1995
Original translations/adaptations of THE BEAST, a lust-filled, passion-
driven frenzy; and OFFICE PARTY, a futile attempt to maintain dignity
as disruptions reduce pomposity to hysterics.
Cafe Voltaire

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS - Summer 1995
A knock-down, punched-up version of the Bard's "most immature comedy." Guaranteed to be Shakespeare as you've never seen Shakespeare before. This is Shakespeare you won't sleep through!
This is Shakespeare your kids will like! This is Shakespeare as Shakespeare wrote it: for the groundlings, for the popular culture,
for the love of language, romance, and high-jinx.
(Pay for one pair of twins, get the other pair free!)
Lincoln Park / The Around the Coyote Festival - Association House Playground

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW - Winter 1996
Fall head over heels (literally) into Shakespeare's rockiest romantic row. Leap into the lunacy of love! Mock the madness of mating! If you think
the Bard is a bore, give him a second chance to woo you with this crazy courtship clash.
(Valentine's Day Special - half off for you and your Shrew!)
Cafe Voltaire (extended!)

LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST - Summer 1996
Critic's Choice, Chicago Reader
Four fickle, flirtatious Frenchmen secretly whisper words of wooing to women in the woods in "Shakespeare's most umpopular comedy" that is
in itself a self-mocking glorification of wit and wantonness.
*partially funded by CAAP*
Lincoln Park / The Around the Coyote Festival - Association House Playground

COQUETTES! (Girls of Some Intelligence) - Spring 1997
An original, nouveau, wigged-out translation/adaptation of Molière's one-act comedy LES PRECIEUSES RIDICULES. In this play-within-a-play, a hoity-toity elite audience is knocked down a peg by a coup de thèatre in which a duo of bourgeois rogues trick a couple of coquettes into believing their pretentious charade. COQUETTES! is a piece de resistance complete with a tour de force performance by Monsieur Molière himself!
Free Street Studio Theatre at Pulaski Park

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA - Summer 1997
*partially funded by CAAP*
Shakespeare's "most neglected comedy" in which one gentleman betrays his best friend by slandering him and having him banished so that he may woo his banished friend's girl. In the end, however, all is forgiven as friendship prevails, and a double wedding immediately follows. Of course!
Lincoln Park / Chase Park Shakespeare Festival / The Around the Coyote Festival

ROMEO AND JULIET - Summer 1998
*partially funded by CAAP*
One of the world's most famous love stories comes to life under the stars in Tripaway's enchanted open air production of this timeless classic. High romance, comic antics, and thrilling swordplay dangerously intermingle in Shakespeare's classic tale of two star-crossed lovers.
Lincoln Park / Chase Park Shakespeare Festival / Three Oaks Michigan / The Around the Coyote Festival

COMMEDIA DIVINO E PROFANO; or SCOURGE OF THE DOOM PIES! - Summer 1999
An original show combining traditional and modern commedia dell'arte. The Chicago Reader called this production "a decisive statement of the continued relevance of commedia dell'arte as can be imagined... a grand epiphany."
TinFish Theatre / Three Oaks, Michigan

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - Summer 1999
This high voltage four-person production prompted one audience member to write, "I have seen productions [of Midsummer] in the U.S., England, and Canada, and yours certainly ranks as one of the best I've ever seen. Not only was it funny and energetic, but it was clear."
Three Oaks, Michigan / TinFish Theatre

BELIKE YOU MEAN TO MAKE A PUPPET OF ME; OR, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW - Summer 2000
Tripaway Theatre combines commedia dell'arte and puppetry in this three-person, eighteen-puppet version of Shakespeare's classic battle of the sexes.
*partially funded by CAAP*
Thunder Bay Fringe Festival / Three Oaks, Michigan / Morton Arboretum, Lisle,IL

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