During this unprecedented time, we’ve been working hard on planning our upcoming Season Four! Though the exact details of where and how each show and event will take place will depend on the shelter-in-place and stay at home recommendations from our local, state, and national government, we are thrilled to share with you our plans for now, and we look forward to keeping in touch with you as our season proceeds!
Our Season Four kicks off with our production of Infinite Jest on Thursday, April 30 at 7pm. Infinite Jest is a cabaret-style, live streaming performance featuring the foibles and follies of Shakespeare’s jokers, jesters, and fools. The performance will stream live on our YouTube and Facebook pages, and is FREE to attend! We are accepting donations to support our season here, but it is not necessary to donate in order to view the performance. We look forward to seeing you there! Learn more here.
Featuring Charles Askenaizer, Joseph Beal, Jake Busse, Courtney Gardner, Steven Hermez, Lewis Jones, Barry Irving, Michelle Limon, Kate McDuffie, Jack Morsovillo, Terra Schultz, and Diane Sintich
The remainder of our Season Four explores the theme of “Fathers and Sons/Mothers and Daughters.” Over Summer 2020, we will reconvene Shakespeare in the Courts, our outreach program focusing on juvenile detention diversion, where educators from Invictus rehearse and perform Shakespeare with youth in the Cook County Probation system. This year, our Shakespeare in the Courts ensemble will perform Henry IV: Part 1, a play centered around party-boy Prince Hal's coming of age and the tumultuous relationship with his beleaguered father, King Henry IV.
In the fall of 2020 Invictus Theater will produce Shakespeare's Hamlet. Hamlet tells the story of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, who grapples with the death of his father, King Hamlet, and the inappropriate marriage of his mother Gertrude to his uncle Claudius.
Finally, in spring of 2021, our Season Four will conclude with Marsha Norman’s ‘Night, Mother. ‘Night, Mother tells the story of an elderly mother and her middle-aged daughter, whose depression has pushed her to the brink of suicide.
More than ever, we believe our mission of creating theatre that promotes a better understanding of language is important. We work to harness the power of language to promote diversity, to engender respect, to foster collaboration, and to empower our communities to share their voices, and we can’t do it without your support.
Please click here to support Invictus Theatre Company’s Season Four.