Sideshow Theatre Company's HOUSE PARTY SERIES

Chicago IL

09 March, 2021

1:17 PM

Description

Sideshow Theatre Company is pleased to continue its all-virtual 2021 season with the launch of the Sideshow House Party Series, five virtual readings by some of the company's favorite playwrights – each followed by an interactive celebration – playing March 19 – September 17, 2021. Remember house parties after a show? Well, we are reviving them as a digital get down for 2021! Scattered throughout the calendar year, Sideshow will broadcast five readings of plays we love, written by playwrights we love. Every party has to have a theme, darling, and we will not disappoint. A play is an event, and so each play will have a customized party experience to bring us together even when we're apart. The Sideshow House Party Series kicks off with Thin Mints, written by Ellen Steves and directed by Associate Artistic Director Justin J. Sacramone streaming Friday, March 19, 2021 at 7 pm CST at sideshowtheatre.org/houseparty and the company's Twitch channel. Tickets for all House Party readings are pay-what-you-can (suggested $10) and on sale now. Please visit sideshowtheatre.org/houseparty to RSVP. The cast of Thin Mints includes company members Helen Joo Lee (Drambley), Krystal Ortiz (Dakota) and Sarah Price (Marjorie) with Anah Ambuchi (Molly), Elena Maria Cohen (Scoutmaster Hardwick), Gabriela Diaz (Casper), Kayla Forde (Sandy), Evelyn Reidy (Kennedy) and Shariba Rivers (The Mallard). Thin Mints follows a troop of Bonfire Girls during a five-day woodland jamboree as they prepare for an important election. At the end of the retreat, one scout will be chosen to take over the Troop. The girls use torture, terror, and trauma to claw their way to the top... but who is really pulling the strings? The play scores 100% on the Bechdel Test and offers a warped perspective on the consequences of a community governed by abuse and manipulation. Other upcoming readings include: Friday, April 23, 2021 at 7 pm CST A Heap See Written by Dawn Renee Jones Directed by Ensemble Member Arti Ishak Koua is a fast-moving whirlwind. By age 24, she had survived the "American War" in Laos and refugee camps in Thailand. This mother of six is determined to give her children a better life in St. Paul, Minnesota where she faces her greatest obstacles. Friday, May 21, 2021 at 7 pm CST Once in a Bleu Moon Written by Mallory Raven-Ellen Backstrom Directed by Artistic Director Regina Victor As her stars realign and a fateful blood moon approaches on the eve of her thirty-third birthday, Bleu casts a forbidden spell. To undo the damage Bleu must master her ancestral demons by accepting that, with a dash of magick, she can have it all…If not all at once. Once in a Bleu Moon is a witchy fable about womb magick, self-forgiveness and breaking generational curses. Friday, August 20, 2021 at 7 pm CST Fabuloso! Written by Makasha Copeland Director TBA Armed with all purpose cleaner and the resilience of that cockroach from Wall-E, three maids and a middle-schooler are tasked with removing the stains from Oak Hill Resort. When their boss is found dead in the master suite, this cleaning crew must launch their own investigation. Who killed whomst, and who gives a sh*t? Friday, September 17, 2021 at 7 pm CST The Whisperer's Apprentice Written by Ensemble Member Walt McGough Director TBA In a world where storytelling is magic, an ancient kingdom is collapsing. Two young siblings go searching for the one woman who could help stave off chaos, but she is hiding in the forest, haunted by regrets. Will the tale that shapes the world finally break, once and for all? The Whisperer's Apprentice is a magical, theatrical exploration of who wields power in the stories we tell, and what it costs them to maintain it. As a companion event to this reading, playwright Walt McGough will lead a group of hale and hearty Sideshow artists through a weekly, live-streamed and completely ridiculous campaign of Dungeons & Dragons. Capturing a different (and dice-rolling) kind of magic, this campaign will immerse audiences in an exciting, serialized new form of collaborative storytelling, and highlight just how much is possible when some of the best artists in the city work together to save the world.