Get ready for the Boyle family.
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Sean O'Casey
The Artistic Home
Official website
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| Friday | 8 p.m. (preview 5/16) |
| Saturday | 8 p.m. (preview 5/17) |
| Sunday | 7 p.m. |
| Thursday | 7:30 p.m. (preview 5/15) |
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The Artistic Home, which specializes in finely-tooled productions of stealth classics, has been off the radar for a year, caught up in an increasingly desperate search for a new performance space. It's returned, triumphantly, with "Juno and the Paycock" at Live Bait, a venue which it will be taking over (and saving from possible condo-ification) in the fall. And oh, how Chicago critics have missed the company. Reviews praise the earthy acting, mousetrap-taut direction and spot-on Irish brogues in this production of Sean O'Casey's 1925 drama about no-hopers undone by hope. Special props go to artistic director Kathy Scambiaterra as Juno, the fighting mom at the center of the Boyle family tragedy.
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