Thu Feb 23 2012 at 08:00 pm
Venue : Strawdog Theatre Company, 3829 N Broadway, Chicago, Illinois, United States
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The Petrified Forest | by Robert E. Sherwood | directed by Shade Murray
In a sand-swept diner on the edge of 200 miles of untamed desert, in a country past the edge of financial collapse, a young waitress yearns for an artist’s life inFrance whilst stuck amidst men who prefer to remember what life used to be. But this night, her world is upended by two desperate men: one a penniless English drifter who had and lost the life she dreams of, the other a cold-blooded gangster with a trail of bodies behind him. Strawdog Artistic Associate Shade Murray, whose work on our production of Detective Story won him the Jeff Award for Director (not to mention Production and Ensemble), breathes new life into another American classic, a violent, funny, romantic play that was the basis of the classic film that launched Humphrey Bogart to stardom.
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