Travels with My Aunt

Written by Graham Greene
Adapted by Giles Havergal
Directed by Stuart Carden

November 13 - April 10, 2011

Location: 664 Vernon Ave | Get Directions ›

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Henry Pulling, a mild-mannered retired banker, leads a quiet life tending his beloved dahlias and never strays too far from his Southwood, England home. But when his eccentric and outrageous Aunt Augusta suddenly appears in his life with mysterious information about his past, Henry is drawn from the safety of his flower beds into a series of exotic international adventures. Henry, Aunt Augusta and over 25 of the characters they meet along the way are brilliantly and inventively portrayed by just four actors who switch identities, nationalities, ages and genders in this exciting theatrical escapade.

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About the Play

Henry, Aunt Augusta and over 25 of the characters they meet along the way are brilliantly and inventively portrayed by just four actors who switch identities, nationalities, ages and genders in this exciting theatrical escapade.

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Meet the Artists

	LaShawn Banks* (Henry Pulling, Wordsworth, et al)
	Sean Fortunato* (Henry Pulling and Aunt Augusta)
	John Hoogenakker* (Henry Pulling, Tooley, et al)
	Jeremy Sher (Henry Pulling, Girl in Jodhpurs, et al)

Stuart Carden (Director)
Brian Sidney Bembridge (Scenic Designer)
Jacqueline Firkins (Costume Designer)
Jesse Klug (Lighting Designer)
Mikhail Fiksel (Sound Designer)
Nick Heggestad (Properties Designer)
Lavina Jadhwani (Dramaturg)
Eva Breneman (Dialect & Vocal Coach)
Rebecca Pechter* (Stage Manager)

*Denotes a member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers

Reviews

"It is Havergal’s rollicking version that is now receiving a vivid, supremely well-acted production in Writers’ Theatre’s intimate bookstore space in Glencoe."

- Chicago Sun Times

" . . . An engrossing, satisfyingly nasty yarn that unexpectedly has as much to say about true passion as it does about looted art."

- Chicago Reader

"A perfect intimate environment for the story . . . rightly trusts the audience’s imagination to fill in the visual and dramatic spaces left open by the minimalist staging."

-Copely News Serivice

"The quartet’s athletic, hilarious teamwork transcends Greene’s crafty claptrap."

- Time Out Chicago