Season 31, 2023-2024

Season 31

2Kirsten Fitzgerald

In the 2023-24 Season, we bring you a series of physical, emotional, and spiritual collisions. With two world premieres and a Chicago premiere, we will dig into family, friendship, and faith; challenging and celebrating our humanity in wildly unexpected fashion.

-Kirsten Fitzgerald, Artistic Director, A Red Orchid Theatre

Season 31 Shows

Revolution

Written by Ensemble Member Brett Neveu
Directed by Associate Artistic Director Travis A. Knight
Featuring Ensemble Member Natalie West

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Performance Dates: September 7-October 29, 2023
Press Performances: September 16, 2023
Mask Required Performances: September 8 at 7:30pm & October 13 at 7:30pm
Open Captioned Performances: October 7 at 3pm & 7:30pm
ASL Interpreted Performances: October 15 at 3pm

Run Time: 90 minutes, no intermission

World Premiere!

Who celebrates their 26th birthday in the alley? Puff, that’s who. With the help of her best friend Jame and the unlikely company of Georgia, Puff rings in her new year with laughter, connection, a dose of danger, and Miller High Life.  Revolution interrogates and celebrates the very nature of creating community and building friendships in our ever evolving, ever disconnecting world. 

In Quietness

Written by Anna Ouyang Moench
Directed by Ensemble Member dado
Featuring Ensemble Member Sadieh Rifai

Performance Dates: January 11-March 3, 2024
Press Performances: January 20, 2024

Chicago Premiere!

A former consultant follows her born-again husband to a Southern Baptist seminary. There, she enrolls as a student at the Homemaking House, the nation’s premier training ground for future homemakers and a place where marital bliss means never having to say thank you for cleaning the toilet.  In Quietness asks us all to consider how fidelity to self, family, community, and faith coexist as we work to manifest our futures. 

Turret

Written by Ensemble Member Levi Holloway
Featuring Ensemble Members Michael Shannon & Travis A. Knight

Performance Dates: April 25-June 16, 2024
Press Performances: May 4, 2024

World Premiere!

Two men survive in a facility deep underground somewhere in the wild woods of the Pacific Northwest, hiding away from something terrible looming just outside. Ensnared in a relentless loop of endless tomorrows, they discover the wolf isn’t at the door, he’s already inside, waiting in the creeping darkness all around them. Turret is an excavation of masculinity, love, loss and isolation. A claustrophobic carnival of carnage, carrier pigeons, cribbage, whiskey, music, mischief and mayhem.

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