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Deleted by Facebook, Turning to the Page

Written by Tony Adams

Tuesday, 09 September 2008 13:33

Latoya who runs our facebook and myspace accounts went to post an update yesterday and had a surprise waiting for her. Our account had been deleted.

Turns out they delete accounts for groups and organizations,and it looks like we weren't the only ones who had an account and were deleted. We had created a page, and were trying to decide the best way to shift from the Facebook account to the page. Looks like they made that a pretty easy decision for us.

If you were a friend of Halcyon Theatre, we didn't drop ya. But, now you can find us on Facebook here.

cross-posted at Tony's Blog

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It's Official

Written by Tony Adams
Monday, 28 July 2008 09:24
Last week we got a letter in the mail from the IRS. All the paperwork (and fees) filed, we were just waiting on that letter to make it official. Now it's official. Halcyon Theatre is a 501c3 not-for Profit Organization, and all donations are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. The exemption is effective from our date of incorporation, January 26, 2006, for anyone who has already donated Add your comment

Salon on Saturday

Written by Tony Adams
Tuesday, 17 June 2008 15:34
On Saturday June 21 at 5:00 we will host a Salon style discussion on how the work of these early writers stands on it's own, and with the figure that only 20% of productions currently on stages are written by women, does anything change knowing that there's actually been a thousand years of female playwrights. Light refreshments will be available for a pittance. Add your comment

Where Else You Can Find Us on the Web

Written by Tony Adams
Thursday, 15 May 2008 13:17
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Halcyon Theatre Announces its Third Season

Written by Tony Adams

Friday, 21 March 2008 09:32

Halcyon Theatre is pleased to announce a daring and ambitious 3^rd Season. We will kick it off in fall 2008 with a joint Premiere of Militant Language, by Sean Christopher Lewis, which will open simultaneously at several theatres in different cities. Company Member Juan Castañeda will direct. In the winter we continue the premieres with a Chicago premiere of The Other Shore by Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian, directed by Co-Artistic Director Jennifer Adams. The spring of ’09 will see a new adaptation of the classic, Don Juan: Trickster of Seville by Tirso de Molina, adapted and Directed by Co-Artistic Director Tony Adams. We will close out the season with our 2^nd Annual Alcyone Festival.

Fall 2008--Militant Language (A Simultaneous-Premiere)

by Sean Christopher Lewis

Directed by Juan Castañeda

In the current Iraqi state, a private rebuilding effort has gone underway. As things begin to be rebuilt, however, the village quickly unravels: A pair of American soldiers return from a surveillance detail covered in blood, and it’s discovered that an Iraqi boy working at the site has gone missing; A liaison from the village comes searching for the boy, and two soldiers imprison him in their barracks and subject him to their own methods of intimidation; The Captain has no control over his forces; Amidst it all one of the enlisted troops finds a baby in the desert. In the end, sand falls, time moves on and everyone is brought to question who they are, what they stand for and where it all went wrong. An examination filled with humor and magic attempting to understand the inexplicability of our current reality.

Winter 2009--The Other Shore (Chicago Premiere)

by Gao Xingjian

Translated by Gilbert CF Fong

Directed by Jennifer Adams

Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian’s greatest work for the stage, The Other Shore explores the desperate human struggle to reach a state of nirvana by crossing the river of life to the other shore. According to Buddhist belief, humans experience an actual visible life full of suffering, but by living according to the virtues of ‘‘paramita’’—morality, patience, meditation and wisdom—they can cross the ‘‘river of life’’ to the other shore and experience enlightenment. The Crowd, Man, Woman, The Card Player, and others engage in a symbolic struggle over the conflict between the individual and collective will. Using a dazzling array of styles, unconventional staging and lively characters Xingjian’s staggering work shadows the individual human experiences of solitary struggle for meaning and enlightenment.

Spring 2009--Don Juan: Trickster of Seville (World Premiere Adaptation)

by Tirso de Molina

Adapted and Directed by Tony Adams

Tirso de Molina’s masterpiece is the first telling of the Legend of Don Juan. Sexy, funny and moving; The Trickster of Seville begins with a climax. A devilish romp through towns and women, complete with shipwrecks, swordfights and oaths of marriage; Don Juan ravishes and ravages everything in his wake. As he is hunted by the women he has scorned, Don Juan sees the tomb of Don Gonzalo, father to his latest conquest, and jokingly invites the statue on the tomb to have dinner with him. After the ghost of Gonzalo dines with Don Juan he resolves their conflict in a breathtakingly heated exit.

Summer 2009--The Second Annual Alcyone Festival

This years festival will present works in rotating repertory featuring an in-depth look at terrorism, the cult of martyrdom and its effects upon the innocents.

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