Item Description

Show runs 9/12 - 0/30/2012

Charlie and Nancy, a recently retired, happily married couple, are enjoying a afternoon on the beach.  They are disturbed only by the occasional low-flying plane and their own arguments of the past and for the future. Suddenly their privacy and their ideas are threatened by the appearance of a younger, more adventurous couople-who just happen to be of another species. This winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize displays all of Edward Albee's singular linguistic playfulness as well as his willingness tomake his characters bravely confront their own everyday fears and face the dangerous unknown. The cast features Artistic Associate Annabel Armour.

SEASCAPE 
By Edward Albee
Directed by Artistic Director Nick Sandys
September 12 - October 14, 2012 (rights pending)
Greenhouse Theater Center, Upstairs Mainstage

Company Overview

Remy Bumppo is an Equity theatre company whose mission is to delight and engage audiences with the emotional and ethical complexities of society through the provocative power of great theatrical language.

The company was founded in 1996 as Remy Bumppo Productions by Chicago-born Artistic Director James Bohnen and two producers from Colorado, Carol Loewenstern and John Stoddard. The absurdly named theatrical venture was named for Lowenstern's cat (named after Remy Martin cognac) and Bohnen's black Labrador (named for Natty Bumppo, the protagonist of James Fennimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales). The founders' goal was to find a city that would support their vision of a classical repertory theater producing plays that thrill the mind and utilizing the talents of top-notch professional actors and designers. After a national search, they decided to test the waters in Chicago. They chose to lease space in the acclaimed Victory Gardens Theater building on the north side of Chicago and produced Tom Stoppard's Night and Day in the intimate upstairs mainstage theatre. The response from audiences, critics and artists immediately inspired a second production - Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.

After reaching new heights of financial and critical success, in 2001 Remy Bumppo Theatre Company incorporated as a not-for-profit, inaugurated its Board of Directors, and added Artistic Associates Annabel Armour, David Darlow, Shawn Douglass, Linda Gillum, and Nick Sandys, later including Joe Van Slyke and Gregory Matthew Anderson. Copley News Service soon identified Remy Bumppo as "the kind of intelligent, adult, in the best sense of the word, and stimulating language-driven theatre that has made the Remy Bumppo company such an essential member of the area theatre scene."

In July 2011, Founding Artistic Director James Bohnen stepped down from his post. His replacement, Timothy Douglas resigned his post unexpectedly in December of 2011. The Board of Directors appointed Nick Sandys as the new Artistic Director, and the company now continues its 15th season under his leadership.

Awards

Four Top Performances of the Year*

(*Honors from the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, and Chicago Magazine)
Linda Gillum and Joe Van Slyke, Holiday (2002)
Deanna Dunagan, A Delicate Balance (2004)
Nick Sandys, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? (2011)

Four Joseph Jefferson Awards

Production, Midsize, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? (2011)
Actress in a Principal Role (Play) - Annabel Armour, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? (2011)
Costume Design, Rachel Laritz, The Voysey Inheritance (2009)
Cameo Performance, Doug Vickers, The Best Man (2006)

RemyBumppo website

YouTube Retrospective

Item Special Note

Not valid for opening night (9/17/12) or 9/29/2012 matinee.