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As one as come to expect from Dead Writers’ Theatre Collective, the production values are stunning, with precise detail found in every nook and cranny...Dead Writers’ Theatre Collective is a true beacon for other theatre companies to follow. It is with respect that they approach their productions (just look at last year’s hit The Vortex) with every minute detail being given attention. That is a rarity in today’s theatre world and one that deserves respect.....Michael Roberts, Showbiz Chicago, Highly Recommended
I was enthralled by the writing of this play... Katy Walsh, Chicago Theater Beat 3 Stars
by Adam Pasen
Directed by Artistic Director
Jim Schneider
Now In Its Professional World Premiere at The Greenhouse Theater Center in Chicago
Previews April 26th
Opens May 1st, 2013
Runs Thursday through Saturday - 7:30 pm
Saturday & Sunday matinees - 2:30 pm
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About the Play
The Jazz Age and the Gilded Age collide in "Tea with Edie and Fitz," a play that chronicles the tempestuous meeting of literary icons Edith Wharton and F. Scott Fitzgerald at her estate for tea in the 1920s. In scenes that jump backward and forward chronologically and that span the entire globe (from glittering expatriate Paris to roaring post-WWI Manhattan), the play examines the lives of two authors at the height of their powers and imagines what may have happened in that meeting that led them to never speak again. Particular attention is also paid to Fitzgerald's relationship with his beautiful and troubled Southern wife Zelda and Wharton's with the ghost of her mentor and longtime companion Henry James, calling into question themes of gender, sanity, time, the purpose of art, and the nature of love and loss.
Literary Titans Edith Wharton (Patti Roeder) and F. Scott Fitzgerald (Madison Niederhauser) stand off over "tea".
Photo by Anthony LaPenna
"Tea with Edie and Fitz" was the Recipient of an Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Grant for $1,000 for a new historical work on GLBT themes and was recently a semifinalist for the Firehouse Festival of New American Plays. It received its first non-professional production in York Arena at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI (July '11).
About the Writer
(Playwright) Adam holds a BA and MA in creative writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University, respectively. He recently completed his PhD in English with a focus in Playwriting from Western Michigan University, where he was the recipient of the Kennedy Center’s National Ten-Minute Play Award (for which he will be published in Best American Short Plays 2012 alongside John Guare, A R Gurney, and Neil LaBute). Other plays and adaptations include Badfic Love (WordBRIDGE 2012), Board Fold: a tale of retail (Reva Shiner Comedy Award Finalist), Spats (Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival), Vanity Fair (Remy Bumppo Translations and Adaptations Series), and Ernest Hemingway'sHills Like White Elephants (City Lit Art of the Adaptation Festival, dir: Jim Schneider). He has worked with ATC and Tectonic Theatre Project, and has published several one-acts with Heuer and Brooklyn Publishers.
As an actor, Adam's recent credits in Kalamazoo include The Drowsy Chaperone (Robert Martin), King Lear (Edmund), Legally Blonde (Warner), Tartuffe (Tartuffe), and The Little Dog Laughed (Mitchell). In Chicago he has had the honor of appearing in An Ideal Husband and Seven Brides for Seven Brotherswith Circle, Knute Rockne All-American and The Producers with TATC, Oh Boy! with City Lit, and Joseph starring Donny Osmond at the Chicago Theater among others.
At The Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL
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KRIGLER, the cologne of F. Scott Fitzgerald is the official perfumer for Tea with Edie & Fitz
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A Concert Staged Reading
The Greenhouse Theater Center - Studio Theatre
June 26 & 27th, 2013
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LOOS ENDS:
A Hollywood Memoir about
Anita Loos and Paulette Goddard
by
BRENDA KILIANSKI
Directed by Charlie McGrath
Dead Writers presents a staged reading of Ms. Kilianski's touching comic memoir about the lifelong friendship of one of Hollywood's first screenwriters, Anita Loos and screen siren Paulette Goddard as they recount their career climb in the male dominated film industry spanning from 1914 to 1979.
Wit rules as the two women, now in old age, look back on the ghosts and follies of their youth and what led to their big fallout as they wrap up the loose ends of their friendship.
Characters include: Charlie Chaplain, Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith, George Cukor, David O'Selznick, Eric Maria Remarque and George Gershwin among others.
VENUE: The Greenhouse Theater Center
DATES: June 26 & 27th, 2013
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Coming April, 2014
Jane Austen's
EMMA
Adapted by Michael Bloom
Directed by Artistic Director
Jim Schneider
Jane Austen explores the perils of matchmaking in this beloved drawing room comedy of manners.
Dead Writers presents the Chicago Premiere of a fresh, new adaptation first presented in 2010 that paralells the feature film with Gwyneth Paltrow.
