Next Up 2013

Three Productions from Chicago's Next Generation of Artists

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May 28 - June 16, 2013

The Garage Theatre
Tickets are $20

Steppenwolf’s NEXT UP program showcases Chicago’s next generation of artists, in three productions presented in rotating repertory in The Garage. NEXT UP is presented in collaboration with Northwestern University's MFA programs in Direction and Design, and features the work of graduates of those programs with casts of professional Chicago actors.

The Drunken City

By Adam Bock
Directed by John Michael DiResta

The sparkle of glittery pink cocktails lures three brides-to-be into the city for an epic bar crawl. After a stirring encounter with a handsome stranger, the evening takes a surreal turn that threatens the very future they came to celebrate. In the ups and downs of modern love, sometimes what looks like a drunken party foul might actually be a new beginning.

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The Internationalist

By Anne Washburn
Directed by Erin Murray

Lowell, an American on a business trip abroad, is met at the airport by a beautiful colleague. They spend the night together and he thinks he’s in one of those great American movies with travel, romance, adventure and life-changing experience. The next day at the office he discovers that he’s actually in one of those foreign films where nothing is as it seems, there is no moral, and most importantly: no subtitles.

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Fat Pig

by Neil LaBute
Directed by David Prete

How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love? Tom faces just that question when he falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman who happens to be plus-sized—and then some. As Tom explains his new relationship to his shallow (although shockingly funny) co-workers, Fat Pig questions whether anyone can really see past the surface.

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 Next Up Designers: Rebecca Barrett, Chelsey Batson, Stephanie Cluggish and Yu Shibagaki