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The Tempest

Posted by Bohrs Hoff on January 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I’m starting off 2012 with this classic fantasy story, which actually holds a special place in my heart besides being an objective masterpiece of drama. It’s the first play that I ever acted in (excluding, you know, school Christmas Pageants and the lot), playing one of the magical “people of the island” that the sorcerer Prospero commands … Read more

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Come out to our first major (karaoke awesomeness) fundraiser! At the Spot - 4437 N. Broadway, Chicago, IL 60640

$15 gets you bottomless well drinks, select wines and beers, from 8.30pm through 10pm. And there's karaoke.

You know you want to: February 15th.

AND
We have announced the 2012 Season!

Spring:
Shakespeare, I Love You: Pericles
5 Acts, 5 Companies, 1 Play

Summer:
Pirate Johnny and the Irish Rover
A Sea Shanty and Folk Musical

Fall:
The Kindly Ones by Aeschylus
The Trial of Orestes, Revisited with a Modern Jury

Winter:
The Annual Mumming Plays
A Bar-Hopping, Dragon-Killing, Holiday Spectacle!

This site also contains information on previous productions, which you should explore.

PLUS: Check out the posts from Managing Director Bohrs Hoff on the Copyright-Free Play project. That side project is a growing archive of copyright-free texts, which I hope to expand from Shakespeare to his contemporaries, to the Greeks and Romans, and possibly others. This will serve friends of Blunt Objects Theatre who are looking to produce low-cost high-quality theatre that is still relevant to our time and place.

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