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ULYSSES’ CREWMEN (Insurgent Theater) @ Co-Prosperity Sphere

ULYSSES’ CREWMEN (Insurgent Theater)

September 27, 2009 8pm
Insurgent Theatre Stages Anarchist Play in Chicago Radical touring theatre company’s newest production, ULYSSES’ CREWMEN confronts audiences with political action at an intractable empasse. This complex original work about the political kidnapping of a US delegate is currently on it’s first tour, an odyssey of the northeast and midwest, performing in non-traditional spaces including an performance at the G20 summit protests in Pittsburgh on September 24th.
“A drama animated by a dark brutality” ”create[s] a fascinating dynamic.”
-from review by Russ Bickerstaff, Shepherd Express, Milwaukee
[INSERT IF APPLICABLE: Free silk screening! Bring a blank shirt or other item and Insurgent will emblazon it with our revolutionary imagery for free. Pre-printed shirts, posters, scripts and other items will also be available for purchase.]
ULYSSES’ CREWMEN
Written by Ben Turk Starring Kate Pleuss and Ben Turk
More about the play:
“Hear the Siren’s Song! Insurgent Theatre secedes from America’s ineffectual political processes. We join the struggle against the imperial political economy arranged by bureaucratic trade regimes that make us all complicit in the exploitation and destruction of others. We question and investigate the psychosexual underpinnings of both this bureaucracy and those of us attempting to rebel against it. We use Homer’s Odyssey as a framework to stage these struggles in a single claustrophobic scene between two people, one of whom is bound and gagged.”
More about the Playwright:
“Ben Turk co-founded INSURGENT THEATRE in the summer of 2003. He learned every aspect of theatre production, from promotion and fundraising to set construction and lighting to playwriting, acting and directing by hands-on experience and independent research. After a years of writing and producing successful full length plays like BRING THE WAR HOME, all kinds of absurd one act festivals, and wild theatre experiments like PLAY IN A DAY (a full length play written, constructed, rehearsed and performed in only 24 hours) Ben has decided to apply his DIY theatre approach to touring. ”
Contact: Ben Turk Phone: 414 305 9832 Email: insurgent.ben@gmail.com
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