Directed by Paul Baker . The Maker of Dreams by Oliphant Down This musical fairy tale features Pierrot and Pierrette, living unhappily ever after together. But a stranger arrives to help with magic, riddles, and poetry. . With original music by Bill Hohnke . 7 pm Friday, December, 7 at Augustana Church (5500 S Woodlawn.) […]
Want to be involved in a staged reading? Not sure how?
Hyde Park Community Players welcomes people at all levels of theater experience -- including none! Is there a short play (or excerpt of a play) that you'd love to share with an audience? Or a poetry collection or other literary work that has some dramatic possibilities? Would you like act, or direct? If so, please contact producer Paul Baker at stagedreadings@hydeparkcommunityplayers.org to learn more about the Staged Reading Series. We currently host a staged reading each month, on the First Friday of the month (occasionally Second Friday to avoid a conflict). In a staged reading, the actors have their scripts with them, so no memorization is required. Support is available for inexperienced or first-time directors as you learn how to work with your cast to bring a short play to life. The Friday reading is rehearsed, typically two or three times. Readings run about an hour, more or less, followed by refreshments and a chance to talk with the actors and director about the reading.. If you're not on the Hyde Park Community Players mailing list, make sure to sign up at the bottom of our homepage, so you can find out about the next reading. Attending one (or more) will help give you a better idea of what's involved in putting a performance together. We would love for you to be part of this series, whether as an audience member, an actor, or a director!
FRIDAY STAGED READING: An Enemy of the People
Directed by Laura MacGregor . An Enemy of the People was written in 1882 by Henrik Ibsen. It tells the story of a town, whose supposedly beneficial spa water may actually be poisoning the citizens. But who is the actual enemy of the people: the scientist gleeful at the disaster, the mayor eager to cover it up, […]
FRIDAY STAGED READING: The Wedding Band by Alice Childress
Directed by Oroki Rice, it’s an interracial love story set in 1918. There is a war in Europe, and a smaller war in South Carolina, where an African-American seamstress and a white German-American baker have a long-time affair. Disapproval from neighbors and family, as well as South Carolina’s laws prohibiting interracial marriage, makes it increasingly hard for them […]
FRIDAY STAGED READING: We Have Always Lived in the Castle By Shirley Jackson, Adapted and Directed by Marilyn Cavicchia, September 14, 2018
Friday, Sept. 14, 8 pm at Augustana. (Note–this is the 2nd Friday) See Marilyn’s original adaptation of the 1962 novel by American mystery/horror writer Shirley Jackson. Jackson was a prolific writer, and HPCP previously performed her most famous work, The Lottery, for one of our Radio Shows. Since the mysterious murders of four family members, the […]
FRIDAY STAGED READING: Midsummer Night’s Scream (Part Two) by Fran Zell & Sidney Friedman, July 6 2018
On July 6 the Staged Reading series premieres Part 2 of an original musical: MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SCREAM Music by Sidney Friedman, Book and Lyrics by Fran Zell Directed by Corinna Christman Music direction by Sidney Friedman Midsummer Night’s Scream transforms Midsummer Night’s Dream into the tale of a Chicago ghost tour gone awry on a moonlit night rife with […]
Friday Staged Reading: MENTAL, written and directed by Sasha Austin Schmidt. Friday, February 2, 2018.
Friday,February 2, 2018. 8:00pm at Augustana Lutheran Church (5500 South Woodlawn). Admission $5. Mental. Written and directed by Sasha Austin Schmidt. Featuring: Vanessa Ellis, Corinna Christman, Amelia Snoblin, Tom Lariviere, Bill Hohnke, Leslie Halverson, Samantha Fenno, Michelle Heinz, Oroki Rice. Mental is a one-act play composed of four vignettes which offers a lighthearted look at feeling down […]
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