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TheaterWorks: TheaterWorks PRODUCTION: The Sty of the Blind Pig
By Philip Hayes Dean • Directed by Tazewell Thompson
January 20 through February 26, 2012
Set in South Side Chicago in the late 1950's, in the late 1950's just as the Civil Rights Movement begins, this rich family drama looks back at a changing world and forward to a future suffused with new understandings.
Honored by Time Magazine as one of the year's ten best plays, the publication called The Sty of the Blind Pig "Eloquent, powerful, moving and beautiful… a consecrated act of theater."
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdays - 7:30pm
Friday and Saturdays - 8pm
Saturday and Sunday Matinees - 2pm
ALL-FREE performance for college students and faculty -
Saturday, February 4th - 2:30 matinee. CALL FOR DETAILS. Tickets:
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TheaterWorks presents The Sty of the Blind Pig by Philip Hayes Dean. Set in South Side Chicago in the late 1950's just as the Civil Rights Movement begins, this rich African American family drama looks back at a changing world and forward to a future suffused with new understandings.
Tazewell Thompson, who staged TheaterWorks’ celebrated productions of Broke-ology, God of Carnage, RACE and The Mother----- With the Hat, directs Krystel Lucas (Alberta), Eden Marryshow (Blind Jordan), Jonathan Earl Peck (Doc), and Brenda Thomas (Weedy) in The Sty of the Blind Pig, the second play of the company’s 26th Season.
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By turns a rollicking domestic comedy and a mysterious, devastating tragedy, The Sty of the Blind Pig is an intriguing, finely wrought story which explores the relationship between a headstrong matriarch and her sensitive daughter.
On the cusp of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago’s South Side, Alberta, unmarried and in her thirties, shares an apartment with her mother, Weedy, an old-fashioned Southern transplant who cloaks her troubles in the hats and dresses of her church-going life. Weedy is not an easy woman and she never misses a chance to berate her daughter or brother, Doc. Doc is a dapper, down-on-his-luck gambling man and the despair of his strait-laced sister. Nonetheless, he is a strong presence in the women’s lives.
The arrival of a stranger propels the family to confront their traditional values and expectations. When Blind Jordan comes to their door searching for a woman he once knew, the family is puzzled and even frightened. But Alberta offers to help and finds herself surprisingly taken by the blind musician. Out of the unsettling nature of their encounter comes a growing estrangement between mother and daughter, and a disturbing awareness of loneliness, despair, things lost and the relentless march of time.
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