Pre•Ambles are half-hour, pre-performance talks on select Saturdays & Sundays. Join scholars Stephen Bennett, Deon Custard, and Regina Buccola as they each examine the play & interpretive choices made by the creative team.
FEB 2 - MAR 3, 2024
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Edward Hall
Starring Katy Sullivan
Courtyard Theater
Richard III
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Edward Hall
Starring Katy Sullivan
Courtyard Theater
Run Time: 2 hours, 35 minutes (including intermission)
Audience Notice:
Features prop weaponry, including simulated gunfire; scenes of violence; fog and haze; and brief moments of flashing lights.
“Highly arresting & courageous… Katy Sullivan’s work is intoxicating”
Power, greed, ambition. A world where to win is everything. And to win at all costs. Tony Award nominee, Paralympic champion, and bilateral above-knee amputee Katy Sullivan makes her Chicago Shakespeare debut in Edward Hall’s first production as artistic director. Full of scathing dark comedy and high-stakes family drama, a divided kingdom provides fertile ground for the charismatic, unscrupulous Richard to seize power and exact revenge—and no one is safe from his tyranny. This marks the first major US production of Richard III to feature a woman with a disability in the title role. “Sheer exhilarating theatricality,” declares Chicago Reader.
FEB 23 ASL Interpretation
FEB 25 Audio Description
with optional Touch Tour
FEB 27 Spanish Translation
FEB 28 Open Captioning
Run Time: 2 hours, 35 minutes (including intermission)
Audience Notice:
Features prop weaponry, including simulated gunfire; scenes of violence; fog and haze; and brief moments of flashing lights.
FEB 23 ASL Interpretation
FEB 25 Audio Description
with optional Touch Tour
FEB 27 Spanish Translation
FEB 28 Open Captioning
FEB 23 ASL Interpretation
FEB 25 Audio Description
with optional Touch Tour
FEB 27 Spanish Translation
FEB 28 Open Captioning
“STYLISH & MACABRE. A gutsy take on one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays.”
“A TRIUMPH. Hall has approached with such care and clarity…even newcomers to Shakespeare will be enraptured.”
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