Plays-in-Development: "Killing It" and "The Following is Based on a True Story"
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Each season, The Sauk searches for plays that are still in the development process. We match playwrights with directors and then actors to help workshop the play, making improvements to the script throughout the process. Then, public readings are held and the audience is invited to share their feedback. Playwrights leave the process with advice from a director, a cast and an audience.
This is a "Pay What You Can" event. Tickets are only available at the door starting one hour prior to performance time.
About "Killing It"
Emerging stand-up comedian Jon is set to be featured in local reporter Rachel’s article about the intersection of comedians and trauma. This breakthrough moment would be scary, but at least he has his best friend and roommate, fellow comedian Andy, to lead him through it and work with him on new jokes. Everything seems to be working out… too bad Andy’s been dead for months.
About "The Following is Based on a True Story"
Representatives from Dorothy's House, a Wizard of Oz museum a few miles down the road, show up to picket the flashy Oz Museum, which they deem "a den of lies." Why? Because these women are the proprietors, so they say, of the true Wizard of Oz museum. In fact, they are the relatives of the original Dorothy, and though they may have some disagreement as to how the story really went down in their family lore, they know that this fake museum with its movie paraphernalia and wax statue is not only taking money that is rightly theirs, but is propagating the wrong story. Frank L. Baum, they say, got his brilliant idea from their family, on their farm, just 20 miles down the road. When a couple shows up to visit the picketed Oz Museum and runs into this quarrel between picketers and the museum's owner - himself decked out in an Oz costume and adorned by his two adorably costumed daughters - a conflict ensues. Which museum will the couple choose? The descendants of Dorothy and Aunt Em may lose this particular battle, but they have an interesting fact up their sleeves that will leave the audience wondering whether they aren't telling the truth after all.
This production is sponsored by State Farm Agent Jason Adcock, Gossage Eye Institute & Optical, Hillsdale CASA, Don Toffollo of Edward Jones, Country Carpets and DJ Johnson & Associates. A grant from the Walmart Foundation encourages local writers to aspire to get their work produced at The Sauk.
This is a "Pay What You Can" event. Tickets are only available at the door starting one hour prior to performance time.
About "Killing It"
Emerging stand-up comedian Jon is set to be featured in local reporter Rachel’s article about the intersection of comedians and trauma. This breakthrough moment would be scary, but at least he has his best friend and roommate, fellow comedian Andy, to lead him through it and work with him on new jokes. Everything seems to be working out… too bad Andy’s been dead for months.
About "The Following is Based on a True Story"
Representatives from Dorothy's House, a Wizard of Oz museum a few miles down the road, show up to picket the flashy Oz Museum, which they deem "a den of lies." Why? Because these women are the proprietors, so they say, of the true Wizard of Oz museum. In fact, they are the relatives of the original Dorothy, and though they may have some disagreement as to how the story really went down in their family lore, they know that this fake museum with its movie paraphernalia and wax statue is not only taking money that is rightly theirs, but is propagating the wrong story. Frank L. Baum, they say, got his brilliant idea from their family, on their farm, just 20 miles down the road. When a couple shows up to visit the picketed Oz Museum and runs into this quarrel between picketers and the museum's owner - himself decked out in an Oz costume and adorned by his two adorably costumed daughters - a conflict ensues. Which museum will the couple choose? The descendants of Dorothy and Aunt Em may lose this particular battle, but they have an interesting fact up their sleeves that will leave the audience wondering whether they aren't telling the truth after all.
This production is sponsored by State Farm Agent Jason Adcock, Gossage Eye Institute & Optical, Hillsdale CASA, Don Toffollo of Edward Jones, Country Carpets and DJ Johnson & Associates. A grant from the Walmart Foundation encourages local writers to aspire to get their work produced at The Sauk.
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