2009-2010 Season: Young and Restless Brecht

baal
by Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Zeljko Djukic
Original Music by Joshua Schmidt

May 20 - June 20, 2010

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The Reviews are in...Baal takes you on the ride you least expect!

Our eighth season in Chicago features two early and rarely-seen works by German playwright Bertolt Brecht. The season opened with our Jeff-recommended production of his 1919 Bavarian folk comedy, The Wedding, and continues with Baal, which features an original score by Joshua Schmidt, composer of the smash hit Adding Machine - A Musical.

When speaking about the season, Artistic Director Zeljko Djukic says, "In Near Eastern mythology, Baal is a god of rainfall and fertility. In The Weimar Germany, Baal was a subversive announcement of the approaching gallop of Nazism. For us today, he is a trickier figure. Like anything that has had social subversive appeal, the character of a drunken, nihilistic poet-musician has repeatedly been sterilized with the commercialism of popular culture: the Vietnam War protests and Jim Morrison; the Civil Rights movement and Bob Dylan. Most aesthetic monstrosities end up on safe hands. They sell. Perhaps theatre can bring a glimpse of the original danger?"

You are listening to "The Evening Sky", a theme from TUTA's Baal, composed by Josh Schmidt.

THE WEDDING
by Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Zeljko Djukic

Due to popular demand, The Wedding will be coming back January 2011!  Details will be announced soon.

The reviews are in... Love is in the air for The Wedding!

"...TUTA's winter show is quite the enjoyably quirky 90 minutes."
- Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune (read more)

"In Djukic’s skilled hands, The Wedding has the raw energy of a boxing match; this riotous production manages to be at once thrilling, tender and very funny... What makes the production such a joy is the accumulation of stunning theatrical moments offered by this tightly chaotic ensemble."
- John Beer, TimeOut Chicago (read more)

TUTA News & Events:

New blog:  Read up to the minute reviews of Baal

Muses, Musings, and the Hymn of Baal, The Great by Wain Parham

The Music of Baal by Josh Schmidt

New summer classes:  Master classes on Brecht, Beckett, and Chekhov begin June 7.

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Check out the National Theatre in Belgrade's page about the Serbian premiere of Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul, directed by Zeljko Djukic!

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Thank you to all who Got Engaged! We had a great time.

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