Free Street Theater: Performance Archive

Performance Archive

Performances 1967-1989 : Performances 1990-1999 : Performances 2000-2005

2009 - 2010

Church Peace	Movement & stillness, vocals & silence, as delicate as a dragonfly's wing. July/Aug. 09	Director Ron Bieganski, Fannie Hungerford, Joy Conway
UpSideDown School	Arts & Science camp for 5-10 year olds. Culminated in a performance of *Parajo Verde.* July 09	Director Rebecca Fox

2008 - 2009

Stirred	What gets you off the couch to risk your well being for others? April 09	Director Fannie Hungerford
Sub-Prime Youth	Ensemble created original Play about the foreclosure of the mind and the loss of a home. Jan. 09	Director Ron Bieganski Ast. Dir. Anita Evans
Association House	Non-Linear scenes from the minds of madness 08/09	Directors Luis Crespo & Bryn Magnus
Juxtaposed	Ritual and Conceptual Performances happenings in public spaces. Summer 08/09	Directors Ron Bieganski, Joy Conway, Anita Evans, Fannie Hungerford, Shanel Jackson
Park Play	Free Shows and workshops for children in Chicago Park Daycamps -summer 08	Director D-Nic Stockman

2007 - 2008

Where do We Go from Here?	Association House of Chicago teen performance ensemble Voces Ansiosas/ Anxious Voices in collaboration with Free Street Theater explore a landscape that might be a poem, a game, or a dream.	Directors Luis Crespo, Bryn Magnus & Shawn Reddy
Revenge with a Twist	Two tribes fight for peace in an ensemble generated performance developed with teens at Hamilton Park.	Directors D-Nic Stockman & Jeanine Vaughn
Had Enough	A collaborative performance developed by youth in Chicago's Polish community with a visiting director from Teatr Brama in Poland	Director Daniel Jacewicz & Mariusz Tarnozek
Ugh My Kidneys!	Association House of Chicago and Free Street Theater collaborate to create a play written and performed by Voces Ansiosas youth	Directors Luis Crespo & Bryn Magnus
Mad Joy	Mecca is aging in reverse in a story filled with dance and song.	Director Ron Bieganski
Encounter Culture	Unexpected happenings in public spaces	Director Jenny Magnus
Park Play	Free Shows and workshops for children in Chicago Park Daycamps	Director Jeanine Vaughn

2006 - 2007

Origami Wings	Students, Angels & Demons just trying to graduate High School	Director Paul Kuttner Ast.Dir. Margaret Conway
Harold is Burning	Inspired by studying former Mayor of Chicago, Harold Washington	Director Shawn Reddy
Genetics Films	3 shorts commissioned by the Illinois Humanities Council	Director Ron Bieganski
Skeptics: the movie	How do you know you are really Alive if you've never tested the theory?	Director Ron Bieganski
The Peacock King	Children's Show: The Peacock Princess marries a Flamingo. Cluck Cluck	Director Shawn Reddy
The Puppetmaster	Children's Show: A bullied boy dreams of controlling his tormentors.	Director Paul Kuttner
Attack of the Super Zeros	Children's Show: A bunch of misfits work together to save the world.	Director Mica Cole *
ECHO Reading	Every Choice Her Own. Young women poets mixing ideas and ink.	Directors Helen Achanzar, Joanna Klonsky, Rebecca Fox

2005 - 2006

Euro Tour	"Eternal Return" in Germany and Poland	Director Ron Bieganski
Mahagonny	Adapted from Brecht, performed in Berlin, created in collaboration with German and Polish youth	Directors Ron Bieganski, Franz Josef Hödl, Daniel Jacewicz
Unsullied	"You are so totally pregnant!" "But I'm a virgin, just like my mother."	Director Ron Bieganski
Eternal Return	A car crash leaves a group of girls spinning around the moment in a blusey story structured like memory.	Director Ron Bieganski
Her Notorious Quill	The female muses of Biggie, Tupac, Poe, and Longfellow speak their mind.	Director Shawn Reddy

*indicates alumni from Free Street youth production ensembles

Performances 1967-1989 : Performances 1990-1999 : Performances 2000-2005

“The feelings that I have for the work that you and your kids do at Free Street are so powerful
and complicated. I can remember the first time I went to see a show in your space, climbing the stairs, entering that gorgeous, magical room, and then seeing something onstage that was so completely unexpected, something so rare, something so wonder-full.

The last time I came to a show, I remember swallowing my rising emotions throughout, being on the verge of tears the entire time, because the work of the young people was so raw, so real, so aesthetically rich, that I was moved throughout to be in the presence of the youth’s performance.”

-Curt Columbus, Artistic Director Trinity Repertory Theatre, Providence, RI

[Curt Columbus is Artistic Director of Trinity Rep and the head of the Master’s department in theater at Brown University.]