Festival Dates:

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Friday, May 31, 2019 at 7:30PM (Half of the adaptations)

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Saturday, June 1, 2019 at 7:30PM (Other half of the adaptations)

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Sunday, June 2, 2019 at 2:00PM (All adaptations)

 

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$200 for being selected

$300 Cash Prize for Best of the Festival

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Judges:  TBA

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 Ticket Prices:

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Friday & Saturday $15 each

Sunday $20

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Location:  City Lit Theater, 1020 W. Bryn Mawr Avenue.

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Schedule:

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Friday, May 31, 2019 at 7:30PM

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Advice to Chicago Residents About Lead in Drinking Water

by Preston Choi
adapted from the Official Website of the United States Government

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There is lead in the water of Chicago, but don't worry, the United States government will tell you how to protect yourself... if you can afford to.

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Dandelion

by Robert Halvorson 

adapted from the painting Two Sisters (On The Terrace) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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On a perfect Sunday afternoon, sisters Katherine and Emi pick flowers for a picnic that might never come.

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Two Desperate Men

by Will Boersma

adapted from the O Henry short story, The Ransom of Red Chief

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Who's kidnapped who when two desperate men realize the boy they hold for ransom turn out to be more of a nightmare than anyone could have imagined in this hilarious adaptation of O. Henry's beloved short story, The Ransom of Red Chief.

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Crazed Girls

by Terilyn Eisenhauer

adapted from the WB Yeats Poem, A Crazed Girl and the documentary 

Sex In A Cold Climate produced and directed by Steve Humphries.

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A look inside Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, forced labor camps that existed through 1996. Who were the “fallen women” sentenced to a lifetime of repentance, and what were their sins?

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Saturday, June 1, 2019 at 7:30PM

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Three Wishes

by Ryan Yapp

adapted from The Woodman's Three Wishes by Thomas Sternberg and the game Planescape Torment.

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More Uncomfortable Than Wet Socks

by Jack Cummings

adapted from the Emily Dickinson poem, I'm Nobody - Who are you?

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...And so it Goes

by David Finney

adapted from the transcript from the Emmett Till murder trial and the FBI report on his killing

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Sunday, June 2, 2019 at 2:00PM

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All pieces!