Victory Gardens continues its season with Circle Mirror Transformation
Victory Gardens continues its 2010/11 Season with the Chicago premiere of Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker, directed by Dexter Bullard. The production runs February 25 - April 10, 2011 at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue in Lincoln Park.
What do a flirty former actress, a pouty 16-year-old, a hippie husband and a divorced carpenter have in common? Very little, or at least that's what they think until they take a six week community acting class. In this hilarious and touching play we catch glimpses of the poignant drama that animates ordinary lives. Called an "absorbing, unblinking and sharply funny play" by the New York Times, Circle Mirror Transformation celebrates the subtle and surprising power of creativity.
"Circle Mirror Transformation is a perfect play for Victory Gardens Theater - Chicago's haven for masterful theatrical writing," says Bullard. "And Annie Baker's ability to write the 'unsaid' is unmatched. With a delicate economy of words, her characters vibrate with truth, and the events of this gentle play shine with humanity. Rarely does a play speak with such force through such simplicity."
Circle Mirror Transformation premiered in New York at Playwrights Horizons, won the 2010 Obie Award for Best New American Play and was voted one of the top ten plays of 2009 by The New York Times, Time Out New York, and The New Yorker. It was named one of the best plays of 2009-2010 in the latest edition of The Best Plays Theater Yearbook.