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What’s Happening at A Red Orchid

Written by Dianne Nora Directed by Ensemble Member dado Featuring Ensemble Member Esteban Andres Cruz and David Cerda BUY TICKETS! Performance Dates: May 8-June 22, 2025 Preview Performances: May 8-17, 2025 Press Performances: May 17, 2025 Regular Run Performances: May 18-June 22 (Thurs-Sun) Open Captioned Performances: June 6 at 7pm and June 7 at 3pm Chicago Premiere! When Soso is left for dead on the Eastern Front, he’s taken in by the Kremlin due to his shocking resemblance to a certain someone. Koba is tasked with training him to perform the role of a lifetime: Stalin’s body double. While Soso is a performer—trained to dance, juggle, and tour the countryside entertaining peasants—Koba is an actor’s actor, a student of Stanislavski himself (maybe you’ve heard of his System?), committed to the pursuit of perezhivanie, or experiencing a character’s reality. Together, the doubles prepare for the Conference at Tehran, when three so-called Great Men (or were they merely players?) decided the fate of the 20th century.

Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin

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Meet The Ensemble
Brett Neveu | dado | Danny McCarthy | Doug Vickers | Esteban Andres Cruz | Grant Sabin | Guy Van Swearingen | Jennifer Engstrom | John Judd | Joseph Fosco | Kamal Angelo Bolden | Karen Aldridge | Karen Kawa | Karen Kessler | Kirsten Fitzgerald | Lance Baker | Lawrence Grimm | Levi Holloway | Michael Shannon | Mierka Girten | Mike Durst | Myron Elliott | Natalie West | Sadieh Rifai | Shade Murray | Sherman Edwards | Steve Haggard | Travis A. Knight