Announcing CRIME SCENE: a Chicago Anthology

Collaboraction presents the world premiere of

Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology

 a theatrical experience examining Chicago’s history of violent
crime and what it might take to create lasting change, Feb. 14 - March 10, 2013

CHICAGO – Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology is a timely new theatrical reaction to Chicago’s history of violent crime and a call to discover what it might take to create lasting change in our city. The show, a Collaboraction world  premiere conceived and directed by Anthony Moseley, couples nonfiction source material such as interviews, articles, and online comments with three true Chicago crimes to raise critical questions surrounding segregation, poverty, the news media, popular culture, and our numbness to it all.

Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology features immersive staging, audience participation and stylized dramatizations of three real Chicago crimes:

• 
  The 2000 mistaken identity killing of Orlando Patterson, a 12 year
  old boy playing ball in front of his house in the 6900 block of South Perry
  Avenue
• 
  The attack on 13-year-old Lenard Clark by white youth in
  Bridgeport, leaving him in a coma
• 
  The savage beating of Stacy Jurich and Natasha McShane just blocks
  from Collaboraction in Wicker Park in 2010

Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology, will run Feb. 14 – March 10, 2013 at Collaboraction on the 3^rd floor of the Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 N. Milwaukee Ave in Wicker Park. Press Opening is Monday, February 18 at 7pm.  Show times are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 pm, and Sunday at 7 pm.  No show Thursday, Feb. 21.  There is an added Industry Night Monday, March 4 at 7 pm. Tickets are $25; $15 for students, educators and industry. Purchase tickets online at www.collaboraction.org or call 312.226.9633. Crime Scene : A Chicago Anthology will run approximately 75 minutes, followed each night by a facilitated discussion. The show is recommended for ages 15 and up due to violence and mature content.

Behind the
Scenes of Crime Scene:  A Chicago Anthology

According to director, co-deviser and Collaboraction Artistic Director Anthony Moseley, “the inspiration for Crime Scene came from a need to create work connected to important issues in our community. I strive to create a visceral experience that will awaken and spur personal change. I believe theatre can serve a critical role in addressing the issue of violence by offering Chicagoans a transcendent artistic experience that forces us to confront and question the core elements of the senseless violence.”

Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology is co-devised by an ensemble of community activists and Chicago theater professionals from diverse neighborhoods throughout the city. Co-devisers include Victoria Blade, Sara Caranza, Miranda Gonzalez, Michael Johnson, Eddie Jordan, James Lynch (criminal prosecutor), Kelly Parker, Medina Perrine, Adam Seidel, Lisandra Tena, and Eric Walker (lead teaching artist at Precious Blood Ministries).

Ensemble members performing in the production include Scott Baity Jr., Victoria Blade, Luis Crespo, Miranda Gonzalez, Michael Johnson, Eddie Jordan, Eamonn McDonagh, Nial McGinty, Medina Perrine, Shavac Prakash and Lisandra Tena. 

Designers include John Wilson (set), Jeremy Getz (lights), Livui Pasare (video), Elsa Hiltner (costumes) and Angela Campos (props). Samantha Chavis is dramaturg. Sara Caranza is stage manager. Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology is produced by Sarah Moeller. 

Community partners include the Back of the Yards location of Precious Blood Ministry, a network of ministries inspired by a spirituality of the Precious Blood, which recognizes and reaches out to those who are affected by violence; youth programming at McCormick Tribune YMCA in west Logan Square; and Embarc, a non-profit organization formed to enhance education, increase cultural access, and affect positive community change in the lives of young people from Chicago's most underserved areas.

 

Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology - Takin’ it to the Streets

Following its debut at Collaboraction, all partners will engage in extensive
outreach to bring Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology to diverse audiences and neighborhoods in Chicago.

Week-long neighborhood residencies culminating in a live performance will be held in
the spring and summer of 2013 in city parks and community centers across Chicago. Local residents will be interviewed before each outreach performance to incorporate and create a neighborhood-centric focus. A limited number of tickets will be reserved to each performance for victims of violent crime.  In addition, Collaboraction will construct an outdoor theatre at each location – an outdoor performance platform that will remain as a community asset and lasting imprint long after the show is over.

For more information, visit www.collaboraction.org.
(photos by Ania Sodziak)

 

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