At the Ghosts of Ray's on Feb 26th, Chris Bower and a rabbit filled in for the ill Natalie Edwards.

The Ghosts of Ray's on Feb 26th has come and gone.  Thank you very much to Jill Summers and Margaret Chapman for curating the show and to Susie Kirkwood for her amazing work on the poster and the shadow show.    And thanks to everyone who participated. 

The most important part of this review is that they say I am pudgy, bearded and believable as a pre-pubescent boy.

Review by Tony Adler

Little Boy Needs Ride and Notes to Molly The first of these two wry, surreal short works by Chris Bower makes you want to kill yourself. The second, to kill somebody else. Fortunately, even stronger than either impulse is the sense that it doesn't matter what the fuck you do. The main body of Little Boy Needs Ride is an epistolary monologue in which a prepubescent suburban soccer kid—played with surprising believability by bearded, pudgy Bower—writes letters to his absent father and pissed-off mother in an attempt to maintain order while his world comes crashing down in an unusually absolute way. This is complemented by voice-overs offering the sort of soccer history Zidane might endorse.Notes to Molly is about a pair of functional alcoholics whose lethargic, sadomasochistic relationship suggests what The Sun Also Rises might've been like if Hemingway had never left Oak Park. The obsessive, nasty bleakness of it all is oddly compelling. Through 2/12: Fri 9 PM
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Show runs the next 3 Fridays at 9 PM. Prop Thtr. 3502 N. Elston

All shows at rhino fest are 15 or pay what you can. You can reserve tickets by calling 773-508-0666 or online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/92787

The most important part of this review is that they say I am pudgy, bearded and believable as a pre-pubescent boy.

Review by Tony Adler

Little Boy Needs Ride and Notes to Molly The first of these two wry, surreal short works by Chris Bower makes you want to kill yourself. The second, to kill somebody else. Fortunately, even stronger than either impulse is the sense that it doesn't matter what the fuck you do. The main body of Little Boy Needs Ride is an epistolary monologue in which a prepubescent suburban soccer kid—played with surprising believability by bearded, pudgy Bower—writes letters to his absent father and pissed-off mother in an attempt to maintain order while his world comes crashing down in an unusually absolute way. This is complemented by voice-overs offering the sort of soccer history Zidane might endorse.Notes to Molly is about a pair of functional alcoholics whose lethargic, sadomasochistic relationship suggests what The Sun Also Rises might've been like if Hemingway had never left Oak Park. The obsessive, nasty bleakness of it all is oddly compelling. Through 2/12: Fri 9 PM
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Show runs the next 3 Fridays at 9 PM. Prop Thtr. 3502 N. Elston

All shows at rhino fest are 15 or pay what you can. You can reserve tickets by calling 773-508-0666 or online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/92787

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Poster by Susie Kirkwood

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Poster by Susie Kirkwood
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Chris Bower: Two 1 Act Plays at Rhino Fest 2010
Notes to Molly and Little Boy Needs Ride

Fridays, January 22, 2010 at 9:00pm through Friday, February 12, 2010

Prop Thtr

3502-4 N. Elston Ave


Two one act plays by Chris Bower at Rhino Fest 2010

Friday nights at 9 starting January 22nd. Prop Thtr


Notes to Molly featuring Matt Test and Kate Teichman
directed by Stefan Brun

Review:

Notes to Molly by Chris Bower deals the most devastating realism of all these pieces. Based on his short story by the same name, the play etches an indelible portrait of a dead-end alcoholic couple and the psychological forces that barely keep them hanging on, to themselves and to life. It is an intensely realized work, almost perfectly performed by Kate Teichman and Matt Test.

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Little Boy Needs Ride featuring an awkward performance by Chris Bower
Directed by Jill Summers
Two ancient monkeys bandy about a severed human head, and soccer is born. Years later the sport only exists to bind those in need of rides to those averse to giving them. Chris Bower presents a world of exhausted mothers unloved, traveling fathers adored, and transportation-needy boys who are not not not not interested in girls.



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The Happy Family Series. This Friday and Saturday at 7 and Sunday at 3 PM
(ends December 6) $12 per show or three shows for $30

773-296-6024
http://www.themagpiesproject.com The Viaduct Theater
3111 N. Western Ave.


Chicago, IL 60618
773-296-6024 My last show is Friday night.

According to good sources, C.T. Ballentine has been found. No details yet other than that he was in a hospital in Berwyn.  Tonights reading at the Whistler has been officially cancelled. 

November 9, 2009
The Whistler
2421 N. Milwaukee Ave.

Do You Have Nerves of Steel? Launch Party! Featuring readings by: Playwright Chris Bower, writer and general shittalker Jill Summers, and the devious stalker Amanda Marbais. Hosted by Jacob Knabb of ACM.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21; SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22; & FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4

AT VIADUCT THEATRE
3111 N. Western Ave.

The HAPPY FAMILY SERIES, Curated by Shawn Reddy.  I will be performing Little Boy Needs Ride: Two ancient monkeys bandy about a severed human head, and soccer is born. Years later the sport only exists to bind those in need of rides to those averse to giving them. Chris Bower presents a world of exhausted mothers unloved, traveling fathers adored, and transportation-needy boys who are not not not not interested in girls.

Please see website for full series schedule, which includes many more dates with exciting work by Martha Bayne, Ian Belknap, Dave Buchen, Chris Bower, Eiren Caffall, Mark Chrisler, Robin Cline, Barrie Cole, Elvisbride Band, Idris Goodwin, David Isaacson, David Kodeski, Jenny Magnus, Brian Nemtusak, Beau O'Reilly, David Pavkovic and Vicki Walden (of DOG), The Lawrence Peters Outfit, Diana Slickman, Edward Thomas-Herrera, and David Wilcox.

$12 or 3 shows for $30
(773) 296-6024 For tickets/info
www.viaducttheatre.com
www.themagpiesproject.com