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Beckett

A Beckett Brouhaha Greg Allen, Danny Thompson, and Lucky Plush Productions

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  • ABOUT Lucky Plush Productions

    Lucky Plush Productions is a Chicago-based dance-theater company. Led by artistic director Julia Rhoads, Lucky Plush has facilitated the relationship between dance, performance, and new media technologies. Founded in 1999, the company has premiered twenty-eight original works including performance installations, two dance films, and seven evening-length productions. Site specific events have included the Lurie Garden in Chicago’s Millennium Park and Sleeping Bear Dune in Glen Arbor Michigan.

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  • ABOUT The Beckett Boys

    The Beckett Boys (Greg Allen, Danny Thompson, Ben Schneider, and “friends”) have presented the lost works of such great authors as Samuel Beckett since the turn of the century. In fact only Samuel Beckett.

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"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness," wrote Samuel Beckett in his great play Endgame. The Festival salutes this funniest of unhappy playwrights with a unique, collaborative program. Lucky Plush Productions performs Endplay, a vibrant dance piece inspired by one of Beckett’s short dramas, and Greg Allen of the Neo-Futurists and Danny Thompson of Theater Oobleck present a sequel to their award-winning original show "A Few More Last Lost Complete Works of Samuel Beckett As Found Even Deeper In The Envelope (partially burned) In A Dustbin In Paris Labeled "Never to be performed. Never. Ever. EVER! Or I'll Sue! I'LL SUE FROM THE GRAVE!!!""

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