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The Reader lists festival schedules (which are subject to last-minute change) on a week-by-week basis; following is the schedule of theater and performance offerings for September 4 and 5.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4
An evening of “intimate and dark theater.” 7 PM: Chapman. Timothy Hiatt plays John Lennon’s assassin in Silken World Productions’ one-man show, set in New York during the days prior to the December 8, 1980, killing. “Hiatt neither demonizes nor deifies Chapman, but he never really convinces us that he’s come to understand his subject in more than a superficial way. The result is a rather generic portrayal of a confused, profoundly depressed man who in some twisted way thought he was fighting for justice when in fact he was committing cold-blooded murder,” said Reader critic Adam Langer when he reviewed the show’s original run at Cafe Voltaire. 8 PM: A Summer’s Day. This absurdist comedy by Polish playwright Slawomir Mrozek, seen here in its U.S. premiere, concerns two men who examine each other’s “fortunes and failures.” This is a preview of the Eclipse Theatre Company’s new production, which opens September 9. 9 PM: Birth of a Sun. The hOstage tHeater cOmpany presents Sam Jordan’s play about “life after the end of the world, when all that is left are two men, one black, one white.” 10 PM: Tough Choices for the New Century. David Kirk directs this satire by Jane Anderson about a seminar on quick response to catastrophic situations. Eclipse Theatre Company, 2074 N. Leavitt.
The Yearning Tree
