The Alcyone Festival 2012

Now in its fifth year, our annual Alcyone Festival celebrates female playwrights. Women writers are horribly represented on stages across America, so we created the Alcyone Festival to combat this directly, by celebrating the depth and breadth of women writing for the stage. The Alcyone Festival 2012  will feature new works in translation by Mexican women.

July 12 through August 12, 2012.

At the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln in Chicago

Lineup includes:

A Lover’s Dismantling: Fragments of a Scenic Discourse

by Elena Guiochins, translation by Andy Bragen
Directed by Alex Gualino

Freud Skating

by Sabina Berman, translation by Kirsten F. Nigro
Directed by Henry Godinez

Two Dead Guys and a Banjo: A Story of Mourning

by Mariana Hartasánchez, translation by Henry Guzmán
Directed by Ebony Joy

The Tip of the Iceberg

by Bea Carmina, translation by Caridad Svich
Directed by Annelise Moffit

*exact lineup subject to change