WHEN:
May 2 - 17, 2025
WHERE:
Berger Park’s North Mansion
6205 N. Sheridan
Chicago
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...Orville and Wilbur Wright, the Wright Brothers, have arrived in present-day Ostrich, Indiana, to build an airstrip. Chuck, a farmer, and his sister, the mayor and proprietor of a tacky bed and breakfast called The Ostrich Feather, must grapple with tradeoffs in the effort to do what’s best for the place they love. Can technological progress finally get Ostrich off the ground? The first floor of an old mansion is transformed into an ostrich-themed bed and breakfast for this site-specific dark comedy, about the human cost of invention in bed with capitalism, and the audience is seated in the middle of the action..."
CAST:
Jorge Salas (he/him/el, Chuck); Shellie DiSalvo (they/sidhe); Pete Wood (he/him, Orville Wright); Donaldson Cardenas (he/they, Wilbur Wright); Ellen Adalaide (she/her, Gidgitomy/ensemble); Jonathan Crabtree (he/him, Hasty/ensemble); Paul Kaufmann (he/him, U/S Chuck and Orville); Debra FitzGerald (she/her, U/S Incandescence and Gidgitomy) and Ted Dayton (he/him, U/S Wilbur and Hasty).
CREATIVE TEAM:
Eileen Tull (she/her, director); Wendy A. Schmidt (she/her, playwright); Sallie Anne Young (she/her, stage manager); Mary Aurora Moore (she/her, properties and set designer); Annie A. (she/they, costume designer); Daniel “Taz” Stahlnecker (he/him, assistant director) and Lou McNaughton (they/them, assistant stage manager).
