SHOWS

Chicago Actors Wordshop: “Bread and Salt”

Presented by Millennium Park "In the Works" Theater Lab Series

October 22, 2009 — October 24, 2009
Jay Pritzker Pavillion
$10

Chicago Actors Wordshop kicks off Millennium Park’s new intimate In the Works theater lab series with Bread and Salt, a poignant and humorous tribute celebrating the bold spirit of the laborers who built Chicago 100 years ago.  In the series, audiences will get to sit on the stage of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, experiencing works in development by local theater artists or companies.

Created from more than 35 poems by Carl Sandburg, Bread and Salt is an ode to the working class, the immigrant dream and the sharp contrast between rich and poor.  It has been developed by the Chicago Actors Wordshop, an ensemble of professional actors whose mission is to bring generations of fiction, poetry and non-fiction to life in group performance, using varied techniques of Readers Theater. 

In the Works is supported by a grant from The Boeing Company Charitable Trust. Theater companies scheduled to participate in the In The Works theater lab series next year include Blair Thomas & Company (January 28-30, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.), Chicago Dramatists (March 25-27, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.) and Teatro Vista (April 15-17, 2010). 

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