365 Sketches: PerformInk Article

Friday, May 21, 2010

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Joe doesn't even sound douchey...

Back in fall of 2006, theatres around the country got together on one of the most ambitious national performing-arts undertakings ever attempted. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays hit the boards in many incarnations, combinations, and interpretations. Chicago alone saw over 50 companies presenting Parks’ work from November 2006 to November 2007.

Joe Janes, longtime sketch performer, director, and writing instructor at the Second City , saw what Collaboraction did with their portion of the Parks experiment, and discussed the project with many other colleagues. “I was left with the idea that people were talking more about the event than the material,” Janes says. Still, he was intrigued enough by the concept to give it his own spin. Thus was born 365 Sketches.

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365 Sketches Schedule

THU 6/3
8PM – Weeks 1 & 2 “Dancing with the Devil” (director – Mary Jo Bolduc)
10PM – Weeks 3 & 4 “Diversity Chicken” (director – Jason Fleece)

FRI 6/4
8PM – Weeks 5 & 6 “Zombie Space Aliens” (director – Regan Davis)
10PM – Weeks 7 & 8 “Dried and Cured Meats” (director - Rebekah Walendzak)
Midnight – Weeks 9 & 10 “The End of the World” (director - Rinska Prestinary)

SAT 6/5
8PM – Weeks 11 & 12 “An Affair to Whatever” (director – Dunbar Dicks)
10PM – Weeks 13 & 14 “While On My Way To Hell” (director – Rebecca Langguth)
Midnight – Weeks 15 & 16 “Weenus” (director- Derek Van Tassel)

SUN 6/6
7PM – Weeks 17 & 18 “Shows You Would Never See If You Didn’t Know Someone In The Cast” (director - Scott Olson)
9PM – Weeks 19 & 20 “Chekhov in the Trailer Park”- (director – Rich Baker)

MON 6/7
8PM –Weeks 21 & 22 “Jerk Sandwich”- (director – Lillie Frances)
Weeks 23 & 24 “Red, White and Beer”- (director- Wendi Weber)

TUE 6/8
8PM – Weeks 25 & 26 “Twi-Lite” (director – Janna Sobel)
Weeks 27 & 28 “Disco Heaven” (director – David Rocco Facchini)

WED 6/9
8PM – Weeks 29 & 30 “Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear To Treadmill” (director – John Hildreth)
Weeks 31 & 32 “A Thing I Wrote” (director - Chris Othic)

THU 6/10
8PM – Weeks 33 & 34 “Boris vs. Nature” (director – Becky Eldridge)
10PM – Weeks 35 & 36 “Oblique Oblige” (director – Rose Kruger)

FRI 6/11
8PM – Weeks 37 & 38 “What If They Held A Peace Rally And Nobody Came?” (director – Amanda Rountree)
10PM – Weeks 39 & 40 “St. Drunken’s Day” (director – Mary Williamson)
Midnight – Weeks 41 & 42 “Dear Cancer” (Director – Tony Soto)

SAT 6/12
8PM – Weeks 43 & 44 “You Know – Like The End of the World” (director – Bina Martin)
10PM - Weeks 45 & 46 “Who’s Afraid of Virginia, Wolf?” (director – Rachel Staelens)
Midnight – Weeks 47 & 48 “Barflies At The Beach” (director – Danni Parpan)

SUN 6/13
7PM – Weeks 49 & 50 “Farewell To Monster Island” (director – Trish Vignola)
9PM – Weeks 51 & 52 “Polka Dots and Moonbeams” (director – Jen Ellison)