Stunt-Filled Drama 500 Clown and the Elephant Deal at Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre (1650 N. Halsted St. Chicago, IL 60614)
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The last date listed for 500 Clown and the Elephant Deal was Saturday July 11, 2009 / 7:30pm.
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So easy to get there from the Red line.
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Doesn't matter - wear jeans.
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They have a parking lot.
8 Goldstar Member Reviews
Robert L. Oakes
Different from their previous work, this is a cabaret driven piece inspired by a play by Bertolt Brecht. Molly Brennan and crew really shine in a work that is exteremely humorous while being full of all the meta-theatrical tension and existential terror of their previous work. Highly highly recommended!Written on Jun 25 2009
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Z
It was an awesome show! Absolutely CANNOT wait for their next show. After I watched 500 Clown and the Elephant Deal, I raved about it to my friends and tried to get more tickets only to realize I attended one of their last shows. I was so bummed. Hurry with the next one guys! Loved you :)Written on Jul 18 2009
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Goldstar Member
Great fun because I had no idea what the hell was going on! 500 Clown is about being engulfed by talented clowning chaos that splashes the line between illusion and reality, the rehearsed and the improvised.Written on Jun 22 2009
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Interesting...very funny. Everyone was laughing there heads off including my boyfriend. I enjoyed the musical numbers as well.Written on Jul 14 2009
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More Information About 500 Clown and the Elephant Deal
Website
http://www.steppenwolf.org/boxoffice/productions/index.aspx?id=483
Description
<p>A Steppenwolf Visiting Company Initiative
By 500 Clown and John Fournier
Directed by Leslie Buxbaum Danzig
Featuring Molly Brennan, Adrian Danzig, Gerald Dowd, John Fournier, Matt Hawkins, Jessica Hudson, Paul Kalina and Matt Thompson</p>
<p>500 Clown Theater presents 500 Clown and the Elephant Deal – a musical missile aimed at the tenuous border between fiction and reality – as part of Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Visiting Company Initiative. Inspired by (not based on) Bertolt Brecht's Man is Man, 500 Clown and the Elephant Deal is an original theater production for adults with music, co-created with composer and lyricist John Fournier, who also collaborated on 500 Clown Christmas. A rocking three-piece band, an alluring Mistress of Ceremonies, and a daring stage crew have everything they need for a night of theatre … except for the story, which has gone MIA. The players find themselves on a collision course with this fierce runaway tale, which is riddled with spontaneous characters and dangerous stunts, utilizing a steel truss as cabaret stage and obstacle course (outfitted with custom-designed weight-bearing pulleys and lots of rope).
About 500 Clown
500 Clown uses action-based performance, improvisation, and circus arts to tell long-form dramatic stories that catapult the performers into extreme physical and emotional risk. Their mission is to shift the audience from passive to active observers and create a charged environment that celebrates the unpredictable power of the moment.
500 Clown and the Elephant Deal takes Brecht’s Elephant Deal as its inspiration. Over years of making shows (since 2000), 500 Clown noticed that they had stumbled into Brechtian theatrical territory. Their clown-theater form had a popular and thought-provoking fluidity between the real world of the theater (occupied by audience members and actors) and the fictional world on stage. This made them curious to stage a Brecht play.
500 Clown chose Man is Man to be their launch pad and inspiration, though the group quickly departed from the play and instead created an original production for Steppenwolf's Visiting Company Initiative. </p>
About the Ticket Supplier: Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf Theatre Company is an internationally-renowned company of thirty-five artists whose talents include acting, directing, playwriting, filmmaking, and textual adaptation. Steppenwolf has redefined the landscape of acting and performance by spawning a generation of America's most gifted artists, including Joan Allen, John Mahoney, John Malkovich, Laurie Metcalf, Martha Plimpton and Gary Sinise. No other American theater ensemble has survived as long and thrived as much as the Steppenwolf company of artists, who return home to Chicago to do the work they love.