How To Transcend a Happy Marriage

By Sarah Ruhl

Directed by Elizabeth Swanson,

Movement Direction by Sarah Scanlon

George is meandering through the American dream - she has a house in the suburbs, a loving husband, and a young daughter. What more could she want? Isn’t she on the road to a happy ending? In How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, Sarah Ruhl (Chicago native and author of Eurydice and In The Next Room [or the Vibrator Play]) challenges the white picket ideal, blurs the line between friends and lovers, and asks us to grow beyond the constraints of monogamy. 

 

Collective Rage

By Jen Silverman

Directed by Artistic Director Eileen Dixon

In this phenomenally femme play, five women explore everything from pussy to Shakespeare. Whether you’re a rich Betty, a lonely Betty, a butch Betty, a Betty who loves cars, or a Betty who just needs to punch someone, Jen Silverman’s Collective Rage: A Play In 5 Betties; In Essence, A Queer And Occasionally Hazardous Exploration; Do You Remember When You Were In Middle School And You Read About Shackleton And How He Explored The Antarctic?; Imagine The Antarctic As A Pussy And It’s Sort Of Like That will leave you satisfied.

 

Confederates

By Dominique Morriseau

Directed by Aja Singletary

Sandra is an accomplished professor, comfortable in her position until a racist cartoon is nailed to her office door; Sara is a slave in the Deep South, fighting for her freedom and spying for the union as the nation is pulled into Civil War. Despite the century between them, both women raise their voice against the institutions of racism and misogyny that hold them back. Dominique Morriseau’s (author of Detroit ’67 and Skeleton Crew) Confederates leaps through time to trace the identities of these two Black American women and the truths that bond them.

 

’night, Mother

by Marsha Norman

Directed by Artistic Director Dusty Brown

Life has beaten Jessie down. Spiraling between a failed marriage, a cruel son, and an aging parent, Jessie is determined to take control over the one sliver of life left to her. When new horrors batter at her daily; when society isolates her and the world turns to chaos; when a promised future dwindles and her hope fades: Jessie digs up her father’s old pistol. Marsha Norman’s Pulitzer Prize winning play catapults through a mother and daughter’s darkest day together.