Oracle Productions
Encyclopedia
Oracle Productions is a Chicago
, Illinois
based theatre company
founded in 2001. They have moved into their storefront space at 3809 N Broadway in June 2006 where they have moved to a theater model called "Public Access Theatre" in 2010. Their "store front" style influenced the first shop front theatre of UK
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Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
based theatre company
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
founded in 2001. They have moved into their storefront space at 3809 N Broadway in June 2006 where they have moved to a theater model called "Public Access Theatre" in 2010. Their "store front" style influenced the first shop front theatre of UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
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Past Productions
- 2011 WoyzeckWoyzeckWoyzeck is a stage play written by Georg Büchner. He left the work incomplete at his death, but it has been variously and posthumously "finished" by a variety of authors, editors and translators. Woyzeck has become one of the most performed and influential plays in the German theatre...
(written by Georg BuchnerGeorg BüchnerKarl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany...
, directed by Max Truax) - 2010 Blood Wedding (written by Federico García LorcaFederico García LorcaFederico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He is believed to be one of thousands who were summarily shot by anti-communist death squads...
, directed by Ben Fuchsen) - 2010 The Ghost SonataThe Ghost SonataThe Ghost Sonata is a play in three acts by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. Written in 1907, it was first produced at Strindberg's Intimate Theatre in Stockholm on January 21, 1908. Since then, it has been staged by such notable directors as Max Reinhardt, Olof Molander, Roger Blin, and...
(written by August StrindbergAugust StrindbergJohan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography,...
, directed by Max Truax, Newcity's Top 5 Shows 2010 - according to Neal Ryan Shaw, nominated for a Jeff Award in Lighting Design) - 2010 The Adventures of Philip MarlowePhilip MarlowePhilip Marlowe is a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler in a series of novels including The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. Marlowe first appeared under that name in The Big Sleep published in 1939...
: The Hairpin Turn (adaptation of the radio play, directed by Max Truax and Lyndsay Kane) - 2010 The Castle (written by Howard BakerHoward BakerHoward Henry Baker, Jr. is a former Senate Majority Leader, Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee, White House Chief of Staff, and a former United States Ambassador to Japan.Known in Washington, D.C...
, directed by Ben Fuchsen and Justin Warren) - 2009 Disturbed
- 2009 Zero (written by Chris O'Connell, directed by Ben Fuchsen)
- 2008 Disturbed III
- 2008 Termen Vox Machina (written by M. Deegan, directed by Max Truax,Newcity's Top 5 Memorable Productions by a Smaller Theatre Troupe 2008 - according to Fabrizio O. Almeida)
- 2007 Disturbed II
- 2007 Scotland Road (written by Jeffrey Hatcher, directed by Ben Fuchsen)
- 2006 Show Game Live
- 2006 Disturbed
- 2006 The Actor's NightmareThe Actor's NightmareThe Actor's Nightmare is a short comic play by Christopher Durang. It involves an accountant named George Spelvin, who is mistaken for an actor's understudy and forced to perform in a play for which he doesn't know any of the lines.-Inspiration:...
(written by Christopher DurangChristopher DurangChristopher Ferdinand Durang is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s.- Life :...
, directed by Aaron Shapiro) - 2006 Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For YouSister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for YouSister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You is a play by Christopher Durang first performed on December 14, 1979, at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City. It was performed on a bill with one-act plays that included works by David Mamet, Marsha Norman, and Tennessee Williams...
(written by Christopher DurangChristopher DurangChristopher Ferdinand Durang is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s.- Life :...
, directed by Aaron Shapiro) - 2006 TapeTape (play)Tape is a 1999 play by Stephen Belber. It follows classical unities of action, time and space, featuring three characters in a single plot regarding their differing perspectives of past events, in one unbroken period of real-time, in a single motel room set. It was first produced at the Actors...
(written by Stephen BelberStephen BelberStephen Belber is an American playwright , screenwriter and film director.-Early life:Belber was born in Washington, D.C.. He studied philosophy as an undergraduate at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, and moved to New York at the age of 25. There he unwittingly moved in with a roommate with AIDS,...
, directed by Ben Fuchsen, Newcity Chicago - Top 5 Memorable Productions by Smaller Theater Troupes 2007) - 2005 LineLine (play)Line is a 1967 one-act play by Israel Horovitz, his first play produced. It is an absurdist drama about 5 people waiting in line for an event...
- 2005 Lakestreet Extensions