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Abbie Hoffman Died For Our Sins - Theatre Festival

A REFLECTION OF THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF WOODSTOCK

3 DAYS OF VIRTUALLY NON-STOP
THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENT

This Year "AUGUST 14, 15, & 16, 2009"

About The Festival:

The Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company of Chicago originally founded, developed, and sponsors the yearly event known as - The "Abbie Hoffman Died for our Sins" Theater Festival which involves over 50 + theater groups and performing individuals that come together annually in this spiritual and resource-sharing experience for three days of non-stop theatrical entertainment. The festival was founded to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Woodstock music and art fair of 1969.

"DEAD Monkeys" - August.2003 - (#15)

Written by Tony Zelonis
Directed by John Thurner

"A hand research institute is turned upside down after the lab technicians are discovered missing but, it turns out everyone is not who they appear to be."

CAST:
~~Nicholas DuFloth
~~Larry Filas
~~Laura Hooper
~~Erika M.Martinez
~~Bati Myles

PRODUCTION:
~~John Thurner (Director,Sound Design)
~~Trey Riddle (Assistant Director,Lighting Design)
~~Michelle Jones (Stage Manager)
~~Dave Lapointe (Production Assistant)

"Ernie in the City & How to fly Planes" - August.2004 - (#16)

Written by Patrick Penta

Directed by John Thurner

CAST:

Jeff Jones as Oscar / Pilot

Robert McKenzie as Ernie / Chucky Buttner

"Ancient islands in the brain / SPACE FOR RENT" - August.2005 - (#17)

"Ancient islands in the brain"

Written by Steven Schutzman

Directed by Jason Kae

(Director of the recent critically acclaimed show "The Kentucky Cycle")

"Hill fighters getting high, playing cards, and shooting it out over Mary, plus Birdwoman".

SPACE FOR RENT

Written by G.Scott Spence

Directed by John Thurner

(Artistic Director of the REVOLUTION Theatre Company)

"Government cutbacks offer high jinks on the space shuttle."

FEATURING:

Lucy Carr, Andria Emerick, Paul Joseph,

Braden Lubell, Chuck Riffenburg IV, Nicolaus Ward

"Gore Hounds" - August.2006 - (#18)

Written by Matt Pelfrey

Directed by John Thurner

Gore Hounds follows a Pirandello outline out of the Grand Guignol: three slackers are heavily into cheap horror videos. They do little beyond hanging around in a filthy basement with a TV, VCR, beer, and occasional drugs. (A visit from a girlfriend is like a visit from an alien life form.) They play a snuff movie, in which a girl is supposedly murdered ``live'' and another girl escapes -- right out of the TV set.

The appearance of the panicked girl, covered in blood and begging for mercy, unstops all their unpleasant motives for watching horror movies. Two of the three overcome the third and murder the girl. After all, it's only a fantasy girl -- no one can arrest them for having a fantasy good time with her, can they? She's a metaphysical fluke, a stroke of good fortune that will never come their way again.

When they start to recover from the effects of the animal tranquilizer they casually took before watching the movie, the two fantasy ``murderers'' stagger off, swearing never to take animal tranquilizers again. The last ``gore hound'' discovers his girlfriend curled up in the TV set. It is, of course, the same girl who escaped from the snuff movie, very dead.

Starring: Brad Fry, Susie Kaster, Scott Riding, and Chris Hill

Sound Design - Carlos Torres / Light Board Operator - Lori Mages

"Please remove this stuffed animal from my head" - "in april" "Che Guevara would never go to Starbucks" - August.2007 # (19)

Please Remove This Stuffed Animal From My Head -
written by Crystal Jackso / directed by Marissa Guilen

One man’s frustration when he isn’t allowed to make decisions about his own body. He has a stuffed lion on his head, and he’d like it removed. Please.

Starring: Steve Ruppel, Mark Fonti, Brian Perienti, and Rose Buckner

in april -

written by Craig McNulty / directed by John Thurner

It’s April 1st, 1994 - Kurt Cobain from the grunge rock band NIRVANA has a week to live…..

Starring: Susie Kaster & John Thurner

Che Guevara Would Never Go to Starbucks -

written by Craig McNulty / directed by John Thurner

Ex-lovers meet in a hotel room, an augument over a “Che” t-shirt brings to surface the many reasons that the relationship fell apart.

Starring: Steve Ruppel & Allison McCorkle

*Technical Director - Nicole Zoellner -

(Please Remove This Stuffed Animal From My Head, in april, & Che Guevara Would Never Go to Starbucks)

"The Straightenerouter", "Shrink Resistant", & "Beautiful Rhetoric" - August.2008 - (#20)

The Straightenouter -

written by Ron Klier / directed by John Thurner

Has come to save us from ignorant, rude, disrespectful people
or has he?

STARRING:Steve Ruppel & Dwight Sora

Shrink Resistant -

written by John Lane / directed by John Thurner

Doctor and patient.......or is it the other way around?
STARRING: Paul Chakrin & Susie Kaster

Beautiful Rhetoric -

written by Stanley Toledo / directed by John Thurner

Generations collide in a Starbucks in Chicago.
STARRING: Jeff McVann, Chris Conley, Randy Colwell,
Kathleen Lawlor, & Thurston Hill