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Body/Head MCA STAGE featuring Kim Gordon and Bill Nace at the Sep 24 Edlis Neeson Taylor Mac Theater An Abridged Concert of The History of Political Popular Music Sep 27–28

Timbre 4 Tercer Cuerpo (Third Wing) Oct 3, 5 and 6

ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) John Zorn Retrospective Oct 26

Rainpan 43 Elephant Room Nov 2, 3, 7–10

Nassim Soleimanpour White Rabbit, Red Rabbit Nov 3–5 and 9

Chicago Dancemakers Forum Break Out! Celebrating ten years of supporting new work by dancemakers Nov 16

Sandra Bernhard Experience an electrifying array of Everything Bad and Beautiful artists from around the globe—all at Dec 5 and 7 a great price. Tsukasa Taiko Visit mcachicago.org/stage or call Taiko Legacy 10 and Reduction 312.397.4010 for tickets. Dec 21–22 Rainpan 43 Elephant Room November 2, 3, 7–10, 2013 Copresented with the Chicago Humanities Festival

Starring Magicians Jay Dunn, Associate Effects Daryl Hannah Manager Dennis Diamond The Puppet Kitchen, Louis Magic Loxodontics Gene Nelms, Photography Created by and Web Design Steve Cuiffo, Trey Lyford, Melissa Blanks, Stage and Geoff Sobelle Manager Thomas Snyder, Directed by Production Manager Paul Lazar Ian Guzzone, Technical Director Mimi Lien, Set Designer Joseph Silovsky, Set Christal Weatherly, Costume Construction and Designer Engineering Christopher Kuhl, Lighting Amy Rubin, Assistant Set Designer Designer Nick Kourtides, Sound Adam Blumenthal, Designer Assistant Lighting David Neumann, Designer Choreographer

Touring support for Rainpan 43: Elephant Edgar Dobie, Executive Producer), and the Museum of Room was made possible by the New England Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. Elephant Foundation for the Arts' National Theater Room is funded in part by the Creative Contemporary Art Project, with lead funding from the Andrew W. Capital Foundation, the Pew Center for Arts Mellon Foundation. & Heritage through the Philadelphia Theatre Chicago Initiative, and the New England Foundation As part of the Chicago Humanities Festival, for the Arts' National Theater Pilot, with generous underwriting for Elephant Room is lead funding from the Andrew W. Mellon provided by Elaine and Roger Haydock. Foundation. Additional support was provided Edlis Neeson by Hunter College Department of Theatre and Theater Elephant Room was commissioned by Center the Live Arts Brewery (LAB) programs, which Theatre Group in Los Angeles, California, are supported by the Kresge Foundation, and copremiered by Arena Stage, Washington the Independence Foundation, and the PNC DC (Molly Smith, Artistic Director, and Foundation through PNC Arts Alive. Photo: Scott Suchman Elephant Room Special thanks: Kristin Marting, HERE Arts Center, David Dower, Nick Stuccio, Michelle Blair, Suli Holum, Bob and Binnie Holum, Jay Dunn, Kelley Kirkpatrick, James Sugg, Pier Carlo Talenti, Teller, Chuck Helm, John Engman, Sophie Hunter, From the creators Artists Up Close Stefanie Sobelle, Liz and Dick Sobelle, Sarah Chandler, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Joseph Silovsky, Nathan Lemoine, Kimitha Cashin, Eleanor Hutchins, Conjuring Arts Research Center, John Gaughan, Joe Silovsky, Rachel Jablin, and Brendan Spieth. Hello, audience member. Gain insight into the creative process through these intimate opportunities Welcome Hey. You came to the show! Good for you! You to engage with the artists. took the time, you figured it out, you had a meal, and walked right through that door to get your Theater Thursdays mind waxed. Phew! Now you can really just take Nov 7 It is our tremendous pleasure to present a high- receives the script for the first time he or she a breath and sink deep into this slightly awkward, The public is invited to stay following the light of the fall season for both MCA Stage and takes the stage. well-loved, plushy red chair. You’re here. And performance and mingle in the lobby with the the Chicago Humanities Festival. look—other people are here, too. Look around cast of Elephant Room—Louie Magic, Dennis Dramatically distinct, these two works prompt at those people. Who are they? Maybe your Diamond, and Daryl Hannah. Cash bar and Each year, we strive to highlight distinctive artists us to explore what distinguishes the human eyes light on someone. Maybe you know them, snacks are available. Theater Thursdays is a whose visions reflect and refract the annual animal from others. Both Elephant Room and maybe not. And now—just stare at them. Keep citywide promotion organized by the League of theme of the Festival. In recent years, MCA White Rabbit, Red Rabbit explore creativity and doing it—it’s good—do it for longer than would Chicago Theatres. Stage and the Chicago Humanities Festival self-awareness. be comfortable in a regular “staring situation.” have collaborated to bring forward memorable Look intensely at them until they notice you, American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation performances by Big Dance Theater, Liz Peter Taub and then, why not—just keep staring. Wink if Nov 3 and 10, 3 pm performance Lerman/Dance Exchange, and Mike Daisey, Director of Performance Programs you wish. Maybe they’ll laugh and point to the just to name a few. MCA Chicago program, thinking that you read this little mes- sage—no matter the case, just slowly shake your The current theme of Animal: What Makes Us Mary Kate Barley-Jenkins head darkly and narrow your eyes. Then, from Human has been especially stimulating, and so Managing Director, Programming and the corners of your mouth, creep into a shady this year we are expanding by copresenting two Production smile and cock your head to one side. Now, in a intriguing projects. First, Elephant Room is a feat Chicago Humanities Festival low, sure tone, say simply: “You don’t know who of misdirection. What seems to be an off-the-wall I am, do you?” No matter what they say, just magic show turns out to be experimental theater continue, “It’s a secret . . .” fueled by our imaginations and our unwitting suspension of disbelief. Along the way, we are Welcome to the elephant room . . . drawn into a secret society located at a point in the space-time continuum somewhere between baroque nostalgia and Paterson, New Jersey.

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is an entirely different animal. Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour refused his country's mandatory military service as a conscientious objector and was therefore refused a passport for international travel. His experience is that of many in his generation— computer literate and well informed, but living within parameters circumscribed by the Islamic Republic. Created to travel the world when he can't, his play requires no director or set, and each performance features a different actor who An Interview with the DH: Unless—does Chicago have any trio magicians? MCA STAGE Magicians LM: No. But Chicago has a rich history of at the Edlis Earlier this summer, Peter Taub, Director magic. A lot of people don't know it. Ed Marlo, Neeson Theater of Performance Programs at MCA Chicago, one of the greatest sleight-of-hand guys. visited Daryl Hannah and Louie Magic in New York. The following is excerpted from PT: What types of magic will you do in the their conversation. show?

Peter Taub: Tell us how you got into magic. LM: Magic tricks are a tricky thing where you Lola Arias don't want to reveal too much, but let me say this: Louie Magic: I got started in magic when I was You'll come to our show, Elephant Room. You El Año en que naci/ a little kid, about ten years old. It became at first will walk in. You will see the world that we've a hobby and then it became my passion and created—you see our set. Then the mystery now I'm a resident magician at Dazzles out in begins. We start with some small illusions, small The year I was born Paterson, New Jersey. things with our hands to draw the audience in. That's you. Next thing you know, you're on Jan 23–26 Daryl Hannah: He's great. If you're ever on the edge of your seat, your breath starts to get vacation visiting Paterson, New Jersey, you quicker, and you have this sudden feeling of, Eleven young people born during gotta go to Dazzles. what's going to happen next? And that's the place we want to get you. And that's the place the Pinochet dictatorship rebuild their parents’ LM: I do stand-up comedy magic generally. we bring you. youth from photographs, treasured belongings, Daryl does a lot of bird magic. Dennis does and elusive memories. mentalism magic and we've gotten to know DH: Yeah, totally. Totally. And there's also good each other over the years through the magic dancing. We also have card tricks. But, you Buy tickets online at circuit. You know, there's a lot of magic know what? There's also good fun. conventions. Society of American Magicians, mcachicago.org International Brotherhood of Magicians. LM: It's good fun. Because we just want to Fédération Internationale Sociétés Magiques. share the world with you guys. Magic has been That's the European one. very good to us over the years. People ask us all the time, what is magic? Is it a trick? DH: Yeah, I'm not a member of that one. That one's more expensive. DH: It's an ancient art of seduction and manipulation. LM: Over the years, we saw each other's work and we realized we’d have something unique LM: Right. In the laws of magic, anything is if we teamed up. There are no trio magician possible and that's what you, too, can learn at troupes. Elephant Room.

DH: They don't exist. Think about it. You got Siegfried and Roy, duo. You've got Penn and Museum of Teller. I was going to say Daryl Hall and John Contemporary Art Oates, but they're not magicians. Chicago LM: So, we thought, here's the time. About the artists

Dennis Diamond band, Daryl was exposed to Native American in His Mouth (Lo-Fi-Co), and The Marriage machines machines machines machines has devoted his life to perfecting the art of medicine men. Previously known as Daryl Of Bette and Boo and Street Scene (New machines machines ( for design), mystery since he was a tender youngling. Hannah: Master of Birds, he has developed York University). Film credits include The and Elephant Room (commissioned by Center Years of research, collaboration, and invention a unique blend of Native medicine rituals and Unloveables, On-line, Company K, and Every Theatre Group). His independent work includes have won him the accolades of fans and peers. contemporary illusion. Daryl is ambassador for Dog's Day. Cuiffo is a two-time Princeton Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl and The Dennis served as conjuror on Carnival Cruise the Chahawe outreach program and educates University Atelier recipient artist. He is on Object Lesson (commissioned by Lincoln Lines and Celebrity Cruises, touring almost all children in poetry and judo (he is a third-degree the Board of Directors for the Conjuring Arts Center 3). He has been a company member over the world, and performed extensively in brown belt.) Based in Tucson, Arizona, he’s Research Center in New York. of Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theatre Company Atlantic City and Las Vegas. He’s appeared on received two Desert Sand Conjurer citations and since 2001. Sobelle has led workshops around NBC’s World’s Greatest Magic, Late Show with an honorary degree from Westlake Community Trey Lyford the world in devised theater creation, physical David Letterman, and hosted his own special College. For bookings, visit www.elephantroom. is Co-Artistic Director of Rainpan 43 performance approach to character, clown and jeu. He on Animal Planet. Dennis was lucky enough to biz. He is available as rock band opening act, group. He has cocreated and performed in all of is a core teacher at the Pig Iron school in work closely with previous National President corporate/spiritual trainer/guide, and magic their works to date. Rainpan 43’s inaugural work, Philadelphia (APT) and is on faculty at Bard John Zweers and John Engman at Society of consultant. He would like to thank, as always, all wear bowlers (2005 Drama Desk Nomination, College. His work has been supported by the American Magicians Hall of Fame and Magic Dawn and Montana. Innovative Theatre Award), toured the world. Independence Foundation, the Philadelphia Museum, before it was flooded. His book, Additional works include Amnesia Curiosa (2006) Theatre Initiative, the Wyncote Foundation, US Dennis Diamond: The Black Canary, is available Steve Cuiffo and the OBIE Award–winning kinetic junk- Arts International, the Princeton Atelier, and the by private order, and he is available for bookings creates performance, art, theater, and magic. sculpture play machines machines machines New England Foundation for the Arts. He is a at [email protected]. His solo and collaborative magician work machines machines machines machines. In 2006 Pew Fellow and 2009 Creative Capital incorporates aspects of sleight-of-hand, mis- addition to his pieces with Rainpan 43, Lyford grantee. He is a graduate of Stanford University, Louie Magic direction, imitation and reenactment. Theater develops and produces works as an individual and trained in physical theater at École has been performing magic since he was ten credits include Spirit Wife (with Eleanor artist and is an Associate Artist with the Jacques Lecoq in Paris. years old, when he got his first magic kit from a Hutchins), Steve Cuiffo is Lenny Bruce celebrated company The Civilians (Gone local toy store. For the past fifteen years, Louie Lenny Bruce at "Carnegie Hall" (St. Ann's Missing, Paris Commune, Nobody’s Lunch, The Paul Lazar has been the resident magician at Dazzles, Warehouse), North Atlantic (Wooster Group), Great Immensity). Lyford has performed his cofounded the Bessie and Obie Award–winning Paterson’s (NJ) only magic nightclub and bar. Next Stop: Amazingland (Center Theatre original works on four continents, as well as Big Dance Theater in 1991 with Annie-B Parson He is an expert in sleight-of-hand and close-up Group), Digital Effects (Off The Grid), Hell Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Los Angeles's and Molly Hickok. His work with Big Dance illusions. As a master of the art of astonishment, Meets Henry Halfway (Pig Iron Theatre), Fluke Center Theatre Group, La Jolla Playhouse, includes conceiving, directing, and/or perform- Louie has crossed the country, “dazzling” the (Radiohole), Major Bang (Foundry Theater), Berkeley Rep, Studio Theater, and theaters ing in works such as Supernatural Wife (BAM, likes of such celebrities as Ellen DeGeneres Steve Cuiffo is Lenny Bruce (Joe's Pub), Rinne throughout New York. He is a Princess Grace 2011); Comme Toujours Here I Stand (The and Tom Brady (football star). Louie created the Groff's Orange, Lemon, Egg, Canary (P.S. Award recipient as well as the Fabergé Theatre Kitchen, 2010, as well as MCA Stage); Plan number-one selling item at Magic Trick Shoppe 122), Lypinska's The Passion of the Crawford, Excellence Award. His work has received B (Japan Society, 2009); and Mac Wellman’s Online: The Louie Magic Magic Deck. For only Patriot Act—A Public Meditation (New York support from NYSCA, Princeton Atelier, and Antigone (Classic Stage Company, 2004, and five bucks, anyone can look like a sleight-of- Theatre Workshop), Ghostlight—work in Creative Capital. Lyford is a professor at the also at MCA Stage). Lazar is director of Young hand expert! All inquiries can be sent to progress (NYTW Dartmouth Residency), The SUNY Purchase Acting Conservatory and lives Jean Lee's We're Gonna Die. He is director for [email protected]. Amazing Russello Magic Hour (Joe's Pub/ in Brooklyn. Hartford Stage of Baryshnikov Productions’ Man Public Theater), The Roaring Girle (Foundry in a Case, which will appear at MCA Stage in Daryl Hannah Theatre), Brace Up! (Wooster Group), Donald Geoff Sobelle May 2014. He and Annie-B Parson are creating has been doing magic for over six-and-a-half Byrd’s Byrdlesque (New Victory Theater, is Co-Artistic director of Rainpan 43 performance Alan Smithee Directed This Play, which opens years at venues across the country and inter- Broadway), The Filament Cycle (Tea Alagic/ group. Projects include: all wear bowlers in Lyon, France, in the spring of 2014 and at nationally (such as Rosarito’s Casa del Magiko Stateless), Fever (New York International (Innovative Theatre Award, Drama Desk the BAM Harvey in fall 2014. He has performed Grande). While touring with a premier salsa Fringe Festival), The Man with the Flower nomination), Amnesia Curiosa, machines in The Wooster Group’s North Atlantic, Brace Up!, Emperor Jones, and The Hairy Ape. Other collaborations include Signature Theatre stage credits include Three Sisters at Classic Company, Playwrights Horizons, The Acting Stage, Young Jean Lee’s Lear, Marie Irene Company, and Human Company. Regionally MCA STAGE Fornes’s Mud, and Richard Maxwell’s Cowboys she has designed for the Oregon Shakespeare and Indians. Film roles include The Silence Festival, The Old Globe, California Shakespeare at the Edlis of the Lambs, Philadelphia, The Host, and Theater, Center Theatre Group (Mark Taper, Neeson Theater the forthcoming Snow Piercer, as well as A Douglas), the Arden Theatre, American Meaning Full Life with Wallace Shawn and Kate Repertory Theatre, Denver Center, Berkeley Valk. He teaches at New York University’s Tisch Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, School of the Arts. The Children’s Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Stage One Kyle Abraham / Mimi Lien Dance Company, Deaf West Theatre, and for is a designer of sets and environments for Eleanor Antin. She is recipient of the Bay Area theater, dance, and opera. Having arrived at Critics Circle Award, the Connecticut Critics Abraham.in.Motion set design from a background in architecture, Circle Award, and an alumnus of the NEA/TCG her work often focuses on the interaction Career Development Program. Weatherly is between audience/environment and object/ originally from Las Cruces, New Mexico. The Radio Show performer. She is an artistic associate with Pig Iron Theatre Company and the Civilians, and Christopher Kuhl Feb 20–23 cofounder of JACK, a new art/performance is the resident lighting designer at REDCAT space in Brooklyn. Recent work includes in Los Angeles and also designs lighting for The ascendant choregrapher traces two stories: Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812; Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Portland A Public Reading . . . About the Death of Center Stage, Kirk Douglas Theatre, and Geffen his community's favorite radio station going off Walt Disney (Soho Rep); The Dance and the Playhouse. Recent credits include: C’Opera the air and his father's slow fade into dementia. Railroad (Signature); Luck of the Irish (Lincoln (Horton Award nom); My Beowulf (Collage Center); and Zero Cost House (Pig Iron). Her Dance Theatre); Monster of Happiness (Theatre Buy tickets online at work has been seen at Berkeley Rep, A.R.T., Movement Bazaar); Drums of the Waves of mcachicago.org Wilma Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, La Jolla Horikawa (Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf); Playhouse, Alliance Theater, and Portland Caddy! Caddy! Caddy! (REDCAT); Moonlight Center Stage, among others. Her designs have (Lost Studio); Because They Have No Words been presented at the Prague Quadrennial, (Lounge Theatre); Trace (Hand 2 Mouth and her sculpture has been exhibited at the Theatre); Termen Vox Machina (Filament); The Storefront for Art and Architecture. Lien is a Cherry Orchard (evidEnce Room); associate past MacDowell Colony fellow, alumnus of the design for Mycenaean at BAM Next Wave; and NEA/TCG Career Development Program, and a lighting director for the Actors’ Gang national recipient of the American Theatre Wing Hewes tour of The Exonerated. A graduate of CalArts, Design Award and the Barrymore Award. She is Kuhl is originally from New Mexico. a four-time Barrymore nominee, and has received a Bay Area Critics Circle nomination. In 2012, Nick Kourtides she received an OBIE Award for Sustained designs sound for musical theater and cre- Excellence. ates sound environments for collaborative ensemble works. In New York, he has worked Christal Weatherly on Elephant Room (St. Ann's), Our Aeneid Museum of designs costumes for theater, dance, and (Red Bull), Carson McCullers Talks About Contemporary Art visual artists nationwide. Her New York Love (Rattlestick), Jomama Jones: RADIATE Chicago (Soho Rep), and Chekhov Lizardbrain (Under The Radar, Soho Think Tank). Internationally, Jay Dunn and the Night of Too Many Stars Post Event his sound design has been heard in Lublin’s is an actor, director, and writer. New York at the American Museum of Natural History. Konfrontacje Teatralne, Paris’s Quartier projects include Serious Money (PTP/NYC at She is a frequent designer for Viacom Special d’Été, London’s Barbican, and the Edinburgh Atlantic Stage 2), and L'arbre enchanté (Fire Events, including events for MTV, Comedy Fringe Festival. Regionally, he has worked at Island Opera Festival). Dunn was cocreator of Central, and Spike TV. Her design work has Wilma Theater, Center Theatre Group, Arena Handshake Uppercut (The Tank, Dixon Place, been at Cherry Lane Theatre, Baryshnikov Arts Stage, Folger Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, La The Brick, Triskelion), cocreator of Chicken Center, HERE, 3LD, and New York University. Jolla Playhouse, Flat Rock Playhouse, PTC, (Philadelphia LiveArts 2010), and cocreator- She has an MFA from New York University, and Walnut Street Theatre, Prince Music Theater, director of The Pinks (Gold No Trade Company is originally from Philadelphia. Arden Theatre, 1812, Azuka Theatre, Inis Nua, at Dixon Place). Regionally, he has been Passage Theater, and many others. He has involved with Conference of the Birds, Game of Thomas Snyder worked with Pig Iron Theatre Company on Love and Chance (Folger Theater), Hell Meets serves as Manager of Operations/Production Cankerblossom, Isabella, Chekhov Lizardbrain, Henry Halfway (Pig Iron at Woolly Mammoth), Supervisor for Lang Performing Arts Center at and Mission to Mercury. He has collaborated with A Man's a Man (Arena Stage), Arcadia, Plenty, Swarthmore College. Tom has worked at such Rainpan 43 on The Object Lesson and Flesh and Piaf, Somewhere in the Pacific, Lovesong of prestigious theaters as Second Stage Theatre, Blood & Fish and Fowl. He was a visiting the Electric Bear (PTP/NYC), Venus (Olney Playwrights Horizons, Theatre Club, instructor in Sound Design at Swarthmore Theater Center), Headsman’s Holiday (Theater New York Theatre Workshop, Roundabout College in 2010, and the winner of a 2006 Alliance), In the Boom Boom Room, Savage/ Theatre Company, and New World Stages. Barrymore Award. Love (Project Y), Metamorphosis (Catalyst Technical direction, production management, Theater), The Blue Room (Phoenix Theater), and stage supervisor credits include Simpatico David Neumann and The Scarlet Letter (Rorschach Theatre). Theater Project, Dicapo Opera Theatre, is Artistic Director/Choreographer of Advanced He has worked internationally on Flesh and Greenwich Music Festival, Williamstown Beginner Group, with work presented in Blood & Fish and Fowl (Edinburgh Fringe/ Theatre Festival, and Theatre Outlet. Tom has New York at The Kitchen, P.S. 122, Dance Travers Theater, London Mime Festival/The also had the privilege to build for a variety of Theater Workshop, Central Park Summer Barbican, Maison des Metallos/Paris, Festival scene shops, including Hudson Scenic, Brian Stage (where he collaborated with John des 7 Collines/St. Etienne, France). Recently Coleman Scenic, and Brooklyn Guild. Giorno), and Symphony Space (where he col- he adapted and directed The Imaginary Invalid laborated with ). Advanced at Middlebury College. Dunn is a graduate of Beginner Group has toured to the Walker Art Middlebury College and L'École Jacques Lecoq, Center in Minneapolis, Jacob's Pillow Dance and is based in New York. Festival, the Maggie Allessee National Center for Choreography and the Massachusetts Amy Rubin Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. designed the set for L'elisir d'amore for Curtis Neumann has been a featured dancer in the Opera Theatre (Philadelphia). This summer, works of Susan Marshall, Big Dance Theater, she worked in Salzburg, Austria, alongside Doug Varone, Doug Elkins, and the late club directors Brian Mertes and Julian Crouch on a legend, Willi Ninja. He has collaborated with new production of Jedermann for the Salzburg Jodi Melnick and created two duets for himself Festival. She has collaborated with Julian and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Most recently he was Crouch on Paola Prestini's Aging Magician, choreographer on Robert Woodruff’s adaptation as part of HERE Arts Center's Prototype of Fassbinder’s In a Year with 13 Moons at Yale Festival. Recent credits include: Penn Dixie Rep and directed Geoff Sobelle in The Object Productions’ Animal Animal Mammal Mine for Lesson for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. He the Philadelphia International Theatre Festival, is on the faculty at the Theater Department at Festenmacher (directed by Robert Woodruff), Sarah Lawrence College. Glamdromeda (Ugly Rhino), Dr. C (Or How I Photo: Scott Suchman Learned to Act in Eight Steps) (Theater Mitu), Elephant Room Thank You

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