Opens Friday Sept 30 at 7:30pm
Also performs:
Oct. 1, 5, 6, 7, and 8 at 7:30pm
Oct. 2 and 8 at 2:00pm
About this Event
What is the meaning of “home” in a swiftly changing world?” Do we ever feel completely loved if that world is in a constant state of flux? This season at UIC we are exploring the question; can we find a place for ourselves in all this chaos?
Playwright christopher oscar peña reimagined Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” with characters who represent our America today – people with a mix of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds, rather than the original all-white inhabitants of a New Hampshire hamlet. THE STRANGERS begins with a homecoming, or more accurately, “Cris returns to a place he used to know,” to a town that peña calls “everytown” – a place that stands in for any hometown in America. Cris has been away a long time, and his return instigates a love story. In THE STRANGERS, folks rise and fall like fireworks on the 4th of July, some big, some small: failures of empathy and failures of action that can change a life.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
UIC Theatre, 1044 West Harrison Street, Chicago, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 15.00