The Artistic Home DYING FOR IT

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The Artistic Home DYING FOR IT
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WHEN:

March 18 – April 23, 2023

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm.
Sundays at 3 pm.

WHERE:

The Den’s Bookspan Theatre
1331 N. Milwaukee Ave
Chicago

TICKETS:

$15+

For more information and tickets visit the Artistic Home website.

CAST:

Kayla Adams* (Masha), Reid Coker* (Yegor), Kristin Collins* (Margarita), Brookelyn Hérbert* (Kiki), John LaFlamboy* (Aristarkh), Khyel Roberson (Viktor), Kathy Scambiatterra* (Serafima), Daniel Shtivelberg (Semyon), Mary Spencer (Oleg, Beggary Musicians), Patrick Thornton (Father Yelpidy), Carolyn Waldee (Stepan, Beggary Musicians) and Todd Wojcik* (Alexander).

CREATIVE TEAM:

Kevin Hagan+ (Scenic Designer), Rachel Lambert (Costume Designer), Mark Bracken Jr.+ (Lighting Designer), Petter Wahlbäck+ (Sound Designer), Randy Rozler (Props Designer), Jenna Steege Ramey* (Assistant Director), Tom McNelis+ (Technical Director) and Andrew Snyder (Stage Manager).

A spokesperson describes the event as follows:

"...Freely adapted from Nikolai Erdman's The Suicide – a 1928 satire that was banned by Stalin before it ever took the stage – Dying for It is a modernized take on the same dark buffoonery and fallacies of post-revolution life. In this tragedy-turned-slapstick, Semyon is a young unemployed man who has an obsessive itch to commit suicide. A ragtag team of early Soviet Russian society consisting of a dissatisfied intellectual, a boisterous romantic, a questionable priest, a controversial writer and a proletarian postman all team up to gain a martyred profit off of Semyon offing himself..."

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