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Saturday Series: Ruth Margraff
Category
Admission
- Free
Location
Chicago, IL 60642
Building Number: 798
Summary
Saturday Series: Ruth Margraff
June 14, 2025
2:00 PM CST
798 N Aberdeen St, Chicago, IL 60642
Description
Chicago Dramatists Presents: Saturday Series, featuring Ruth Margraff
Saturday, June 14, 2025
2:00pm CST
Russ Tutterow Theater | 798 N. Aberdeen St, Chicago IL 60642
ABOUT THE PLAY: Locket Arias and A.L.I.C.E.
LOCKET ARIAS
libretto/lyrics: Ruth Margraff
composer: Phil Fried
director: Amy Hutchinson
Six courtesans sing self-portraits to appraise early feminist desire. They inspire world-class art, national wealth and social power. Are they destined to end up bodice-ripping, or fainting and dying in some operabox milk bath? Or is this the turning point where the revelers come in? THE LOCKET ARIAS are composed by Phil Fried in Rossini buffa tableaux vivant style, scaled for Ruth Margraff's daydream muse.
A.L.I.C.E. a Wonderland opera
composer: Amy Scurria
librettist: Zane Corriher
director: Amy Hutchinson
This new and universal journey of self-discovery is asking Who am I? How do I make sense of myself in a topsy-turvy world? And do I follow the paths offered—or dare to create my own? Blurring the lines between opera and musical theatre, this work challenges conventions and paradigms with world-wide musical influences asserting survival as a source of power.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:
RUTH MARGRAFF has been called a leader in the avant garde for her “audaciously original" (Moscow Times) poetics that provide “layer after layer of richly textured emotion...and imminent danger” (Dallas Morning News). She has been critically acclaimed for her 6 martial arts operas with composer Fred Ho for the Apollo, Guggenheim Museum, LaMama, Brooklyn Academy of Music, CAMI and her work on SEVEN began touring the world in 2008 introduced by Diane von Furstenberg, and in 2010 by Hillary Clinton with Meryl Streep at the Broadway Hudson Theater. BA, Cedarville University; MFA, Brown University.