Steep Theatre

Steep Theatre continues its 2008-2009 season of Midwest Premieres with Jez Butterworth's Parlour Song, directed by Robin Witt.  This production, by the playwright of Mojo and The Night Heron, will feature many of the artists behind Steep's 2008 smash hit Breathing Corpses, also directed by Robin Witt.  Witt will be reunited with Corpses Scenic Designer Marcus Stephens, Sound Designer Steve Ptacek(Jeff Award Winner), and cast and company members Alex Gillmor and Julia Siple. 

In addition to being a season of Midwest Premieres, Steep's 2008-2009 season is also of note because it features the three graduates of Northwestern University’s 2006 MFA in Directing Program:  the first class selected and mentored by Tony Award-winning director Anna Shapiro.  Joanie Schultz directed Steep's hit Stephen Adly Guirgis’s In Arabia We'd All Be Kings and Jonathan Berry will direct the Midwest Premiere of The Hollow Lands by Howard Korder which opens June 25th.  

In Butterworth's newest venture, things are disappearing from Ned and Joy's quiet suburban home: gold cufflinks; a stuffed badger; a tandem bicycle. Is it a case of marital subterfuge or is there something more menacing lurking in the dark corners of their once happy home?  Parlour Song is the story of three ordinary people who find themselves suddenly and unexpectedly in trouble—and their unrealized dreams soon become unwelcome, shattering nightmares.  Parlour Song was given its World Premiere last winter at Atlantic Theater Company in New York.

Over the last eight years, Steep Theatre Company has been home to exciting ensemble work.  Breathing Corpses was recently named to Timeout Chicago’s Top Ten list of 2008 andbecame the third Steep show to be named to that list. (Book of Days, 2005 and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, 2007)   In the four years that Timeout has come out with this list, only one other theater company has made the list three different years(Steppenwolf) and only one company made the list in both 2007 and 2008: Steep.   

Parlour Song runs Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings at 8 p.m. Performances begin Thursday, April 2nd and run through Saturday, May 9th.  Tickets are $18, and reservations can be made by calling 312-458-0722 or by visiting www.steeptheatre.com.