Inspired by surrealist painter Salvador Dali’s use of the term “rhinocerontic”–it means real big–this sprawl of avant-garde theater and performance in Chicago is coordinated this year (its fourth) by Michael Martin, Scott Turner, and Beau O’Reilly, who have endeavored to maintain the event’s broad scope and cutting-edge sensibility. Rhino Fest runs August 20 through 28 at three venues: the Curious Theatre Branch (1900 W. North), the Prop Theatre (the Garage, 1843 W. North), and Remains Theatre (1800 N. Clybourn); the official Rhino horn is 883-8801. Shows are priced at $7 per ticket, $25 for four tickets, $36 for six tickets, or $50 for ten tickets. (Complementing Rhino Fest is the Bucktown Arts Fest, which offers free theatrical performances August 28 and 29 at the Holstein Park field house, 2200 N. Oakley; call 489-4662 for details.) The schedule for August 20 through 26 follows.
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See Critic’s Choice in Theater listings. Curious Theatre Branch, 10 PM.
Primus, a city-sponsored theater company composed of people 55 and older, performs a double bill. The first is a revue; the second is Dan Tucker’s reworking of the well-known folk tale. Curious Theatre Branch, noon and 3 PM.
The Yellow Wallpaper
Jeff Dorchen and Mickle Maher, under the auspices of their Theater for the Age of Gold, perform Dorchen’s darkly comic studies of racial, religious, and gender labeling as dictated by political-correctness extremists on the right and the left. Remains Theatre, 11 PM.
