JESSIE MUELLER, NOAH REID, JEFF STILL, TRACY LETTS and CLIFF CHAMBERLAIN Photo: Jeremy Daniel / IG privy to the November 1 st meeting, presided over by clout-laden Mayor Superba (avuncular to aggressive Mr. The rescuer pronounced the town’s eventual slogan: “Here is your future!” It’s also, fatefully, their past.
Mainly there’s Friday night football, a proposed town-square fountain renovation, and the village’s beloved founders’ festival: The annual celebration of the Battle of Mackle Creek proudly reenacts the town’s 1867 salvation from savages, after which a kidnapped little innocent was returned to her family. The tiny burg of Big Cherry is unexceptional, and the meeting follows suit. Shapiro - the banality of evil gets a brand new whitewash. In this latest provocation by Tracy Letts ( August: Osage County, Bug, Killer Joe, Linda Vista) - archly shaped by director Anna D. JEFF STILL, TRACY LETTS, and CLIFF CHAMBERLAIN Photo:Jeremy Daniel / IG is the traditional but treacherous locale for the Broadway premiere of The Minutes from Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre. But something is amiss: It’s been raining for two weeks, often accompanied by Sensurround thunder (awesome sound by André Pluess) and the lights keep flickering, accompanied by a loud buzz - a disruption taken as normal.īut this will not be a regular session. It’s the prelude to a closed town council’s meeting. A prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance are recited. This imposing auditorium oozes continuity, respectability and local pride. In the hallway outside this imposing space is a bulletin board with children’s art, while the vast room is festooned with plaques, proclamations, and a World War I-era mural of maidens. Filling the stage at Studio 54 is a coffered arched ceiling with hanging strips of fluorescent lights. Superbly civic, the vast council chamber created by set designer David Zinn reeks of rectitude.
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