Windy City Times, August 29, 1996 The production by the Thirteenth Tribe, currently playing in the bunker-like depths of the Chopin Theatre, rejects this facile interpretation wholly. Far from glossing over Genet’s arguments, director Joanna settle emphasizes them by keeping her actors clothed at all times, albeit in fetishistically provocative garments,...
Chicago Sun-Times, August 12, 1997 The two-year-old Thirteenth Tribe, serious proponents of site-specific theatre, has ignited a firestorm of paradoxes and provocations in Bombs in the Ladies Room, written and performed by company member Megan Rodgers. Set in the claustrophobic basement of Wicker Park’s Yello Gallery, this multimedia work explores the theme...
Chicago Tribune, March 24, 1999 Classical Stories Brought to New Life JoAnne Akalaitis, Anne Bogart, Robert Wilson and most other postmodern cutting-edge directors in the American theatre do the bulk of their creative work with well-established institutions. They claim allegiance to the avant-garde, but the scale of their visual conceptions demands a...
Gay Chicago Magazine, June 1999 As the world watches refugees return to what may be left of their homes in the former Yugoslavia, Oana-Maria Cajal’s The Enduring legend of Marinka Pinka and Tommy Atomic couldn’t be more timely or more disturbing. Set in a refugee camp somewhere in Europe, an mélange of...