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CHICAGO - illiNews -- Ghostlight Ensemble is pleased to announce the details of our spring mainstage show, The Dover Road by A.A. Milne.
The 1921 comedy is set in the home of the eccentric Latimer, who waylays couples running away together and gives them a taste of what their lives together might be like by forcing them into sustained exposure to each other's habits and idiosyncrasies.
The play is a not-so-subtle dissection of romantic love with hints at the homosocial instinct of English upper-class men. Ghostlight's production brings to the forefront the play's implied observations on sexuality and gender expression that has always existed in society if you knew where to look.
The cast of The Dover Road is: Ensemble Members Maria Burnham as Latimer and Jean E. Mueller-Burr as Eustasia with Marcela Adeze Okeke as Anne, Lukas Felix Schooler as Leonard, Nick Furlong as Nicholas and James Sparling as Dominic. Understudies are Hannah Rhode, Hannah Perez and Faris El-Kildani.
The play is directed by Co-Artistic Director Holly Robison.
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The rarely produced play premiered on Broadway in 1921. Today Milne is best known for his children's books about the bear Winnie-the-Pooh. But before the massive success of the little bear from the Hundred Acre Wood overshadowed his previous work, Milne was primarily a playwright and humorist, who also dabbled as a novelist.
"The script is deeply funny, witty and slyly subversive – it is hard to believe it was written more than a century ago. I can't wait to see this incredibly talented cast up and running with this story," Robison said.
The Dover Road will take place in the coach house of the historic Glessner House (1800 S. Prairie Avenue, Chicago). A National Historic Landmark, the house was completed in 1887 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, which took elements of European Romanesque architecture from buildings constructed in the 11th and 12th centuries, and adapted them to American idioms.
The show runs from April 17 through May 3, with a preview performance on Thursday, April 16. Performances take place on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. There is no performance on Saturday, April 18.
Tickets are pay-what-you-will, with an average donation of $30. Tickets include a tour of the historic house before the show. More information is available at https://www.ghostlightensemble.com/the-dover-road
The 1921 comedy is set in the home of the eccentric Latimer, who waylays couples running away together and gives them a taste of what their lives together might be like by forcing them into sustained exposure to each other's habits and idiosyncrasies.
The play is a not-so-subtle dissection of romantic love with hints at the homosocial instinct of English upper-class men. Ghostlight's production brings to the forefront the play's implied observations on sexuality and gender expression that has always existed in society if you knew where to look.
The cast of The Dover Road is: Ensemble Members Maria Burnham as Latimer and Jean E. Mueller-Burr as Eustasia with Marcela Adeze Okeke as Anne, Lukas Felix Schooler as Leonard, Nick Furlong as Nicholas and James Sparling as Dominic. Understudies are Hannah Rhode, Hannah Perez and Faris El-Kildani.
The play is directed by Co-Artistic Director Holly Robison.
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The rarely produced play premiered on Broadway in 1921. Today Milne is best known for his children's books about the bear Winnie-the-Pooh. But before the massive success of the little bear from the Hundred Acre Wood overshadowed his previous work, Milne was primarily a playwright and humorist, who also dabbled as a novelist.
"The script is deeply funny, witty and slyly subversive – it is hard to believe it was written more than a century ago. I can't wait to see this incredibly talented cast up and running with this story," Robison said.
The Dover Road will take place in the coach house of the historic Glessner House (1800 S. Prairie Avenue, Chicago). A National Historic Landmark, the house was completed in 1887 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, which took elements of European Romanesque architecture from buildings constructed in the 11th and 12th centuries, and adapted them to American idioms.
The show runs from April 17 through May 3, with a preview performance on Thursday, April 16. Performances take place on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. There is no performance on Saturday, April 18.
Tickets are pay-what-you-will, with an average donation of $30. Tickets include a tour of the historic house before the show. More information is available at https://www.ghostlightensemble.com/the-dover-road
Source: Ghostlight Ensemble Theatre Co
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