Failure: A Love Story
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Themes of death and grief. Mention of suicidal ideation and ethnic slur.
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4/24 Talkback with Philip Dawkins
Audience members are welcome and encouraged to join us for a talkback with Philip Dawkins immediately following the Friday, April 24 performance.
by Philip Dawkins
A magical, musical fable where, in the end, the power of love is far greater than any individual's successes or failures.
By the end of 1928, all three Fail sisters will be dead -- expiring in reverse order, youngest to oldest, from blunt object to the head, disappearance, and finally consumption. Tuneful songs, and a whimsical chorus follow the story of Nelly, Jenny June, and Gerty as they live out their lives above the family clock repair shop near the Chicago River, before their time unexpectedly runs out.
"Fantastically macabre."
Robert Bullen, The Huffington Post
"A wholly wonderful show that is profound, yet at the very same time whimsical beyond all imagining -- a show in which time is of the essence, and in which love and death (especially death that comes suddenly and prematurely) conjoin in the strangest yet most beautiful of waltzes."
Hedy Weiss, The Chicago Sun Times
"A Chicago tale full of emotional riches... In particular and most movingly, the play is probing the whole idea of how all of our loves and our happiness are, alas, bound by the confines of time."
Chris Jones, The Chicago Tribune
About the author
Philip Dawkins is a Chicago playwright and educator. His plays include Failure: A Love Story (Victory Gardens Theater), Le Switch (About Face Theatre, The Jungle), The Homosexuals (About Face Theater),and Dr.Seuss’s The Sneetches, the Musical with composer David Mallamud (Children’s Theater Company, Minneapolis), as well as many plays for young audiences and performers. He received the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work for his plays Charm (Northlight Theatre, MCC Theatre Company) and Miss Marx: Or The Involuntary Side Effect of Living (Strawdog Theatre), as well as the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Solo Performance for his play,The Happiest Place on Earth (Side Show Theatre/Greenhouse Theater Center). Winter 2018, look for his play, The Gentleman Callerwith Raven Theatre, Chicago and later with Abingdon Theatre, NYC. Philip currently teaches playwriting at his alma mater, Loyola University Chicago.
Produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. www.playscripts.com
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