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Nine years later, the play still has the
vision and craft of storefront theater at its
best. - John Beer, Time
Out Chicago
If you have not yet made it out to 16th
Street Theater, grasp this opportunity to experience
a fine production by a splendid theater company.
Highly Recommended! - Chris Arnold, ChicagoCritic.com
"The Last Barbeque' not an outing
you want to miss! Nobody captures the angst
and the blacker-than-a-black-hole comedy of
a backyard meltdown like Brett Neveu." - Chicago Examiner
"Hilarious in the darkest possible
way... Inspired pitch-black comedic brilliance
and the horrific familiarity of an old family
photo album." - Catey Sullivan, Pioneer
Press
"Ann Filmer's emotionally delicate,
physically rooted staging never takes a false
step. Recommended! "- Laura Molzahn, Chicago
Reader
"Funny in an absurdist kind of way." - Fabrizio O. Almeida, New
City
THE LAST BARBECUE
by Brett Neveu
Directed by Ann Filmer
Thru August 8 only!
Tickets: $16
Thursdays & Fridays @ 7:30 PM
Saturdays @ 5:00 & 8:00 PM
Enjoy the comedy that first put Chicago playwright
Brett Neveu on the map!
Tickets: $16
Group discount for 8(+) For info on group tickets call (708)
795-6704
An audacious and dark comedy about
a ten-year reunion of a son's high school graduation
that coincides with the one-year anniversary
of the next-door neighbor's death. Chris
Cantelmi and Nancy Friedrich join the original
cast from The Aardvark’s 2000 production: Ashley
Bishop, Don Blair and Ann James.
Brett Neveu has worked with
many theatres, including The Goodman Theatre,
The Royal Shakespeare Theatre and Manhattan
Theatre Club. Plays include Gas For
Less, Eric LaRue and American
Dead.
REVIEWS FROM THE AARDVARK'S 2000 PRODUCTION:
--"Hilarious and ominous, The Last Barbecue
pierces its doomed world view with humor sharp
enough to wound." - Catey Sullivan, New
City (Chicago)
--"Neveu is lucky that his play landed
in the hands of a director as capable as Ann
Filmer. She makes the most of Neveu’s
script, turning every pause into a chance for
drama... The Last Barbecue contains some of
the most beautiful, pregnant, well-orchestrated
pauses this side of Harold Pinter... The superb
cast deliver nuanced performances... Highly
Recommended - Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader
MORE QUOTES FROM REVIEWS:
--No one can accuse Brett Neveu's likable dark
comedy of being talky. Most of the time
its five characters speak in short, seemingly
innocuous sentences... They seem largely ill
at ease with one another. And it's amazing how
much they convey... Mr. Neveu and his cast have
captured an unspoken group awareness of an awful
truth: nothing is going to change here. Nobody's
going anywhere." - Anita Gates, The
New York Times
--"Like all the best theatre,
The Last Barbecue offers an intimate glimpse
at humanity at its most human. That quiet desperation
that Thoreau wrote about is palpable."
- Martin Denton, nytheatre.com
--a "seductively subtle, stylish
play, in a sort of middle-American Pinteresque
vein. An effectively surreal and original
indictment of the middle-American family - no
easy feat that." - Michael Lazan, Back
Stage (NY)
--"In The Last Barbecue, Brett
Neveu demonstrates that a thing of infinite
sadness also may never hurry. He does this with
extreme audacity and absolute authorial confidence."
- David Finkle, Theatremania.com (NY)
Thursday & Friday performances are followed
by post-show dialogues with the cast and director.
Running time 80 minutes. No intermission. |
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