Chaos Theories Theatre presents...

Opens December 4 — Closes December 13
December 4 – 6 at Pillsbury House Theatre
December 11 – 13 at Old Arizona Theater

Crave will perform December 4, 5, and 6 at Pillsbury House Theatre, located at 3501 Chicago Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN. Street parking for Pillsbury House Theatre is readily available; there is also a small lot located just adjacent to the venue with free parking available in limited supply.
Directions: From 35W, take the 35th/36th street exit. Follow 36th Street (it’s one way, turn either left or right depending on where you’re coming from) to Chicago Avenue. Turn left on Chicago Avenue. The venue will be on your right, at the corner of 35th Street and Chicago Avenue.

Crave will perform December 11, 12, and 13 at Old Arizona Theater, located at 2821 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, MN. Parking is available on the west side of Nicollet between 28th & 29th; there is also a free parking lot located _ block south of the venue, where Nicollet Avenue dead ends (just beyond the car wash.)
Directions: From 35W, take the 35th/36th street exit. Follow 35th Street (it’s one way, turn either left or right depending on where you’re coming from) to 1st Avenue South. Turn right on 1st Avenue, and follow it to Cecil Newman Lane. This is a small street which connects 1st Ave. to Nicollet Ave.; you will see a barrier in the road when you arrive at the intersection, with the right lane continuing straight and the two left lanes veering left. Bear left onto this lane. At the corner of this lane and Nicollet Avenue, the venue will be directly to your right. Turn left to find the parking lot.

ABOUT THE PLAY:
Chaos Theories Theatre presents Sarah Kane’s Crave, a "manifesto about the possibilities and catastrophes of love," directed by Rebecca Easton and choreographed by Colleen Mylott. In a setting defined only by four chairs and two benches, Crave explores the disintegration of identity through a fragmented narrative and the poetry of "language for its own sake."

Rife with allusions, Crave draws from a number of external sources, notably T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland and Love Song for J. Alfred Prufrock, the Bible, and the lyrics of contemporary bands, such as Joy Divison and the Pixies. The London Times praised Crave as "a dramatic poem in the late-Beckett style, sometimes a chamber quartet for lost voices." It has also been described by the British Theatre Guide as "a spilling out of raw emotion," and by Les Gutman of Curtain Up as "a fantasia of love, lust, pain, humor, sadness, hope, resignation… Crave is a stunning achievement: lyricism woven into a symphony of voices without sacrificing authenticity."
The cast of Crave features Wade A. Vaughn as "A," Kimberly Richardson as "C," Elise Kuklinca as "M," and Eric "Pogi" Sumangil as "B." Don Mabley-Allen, Sandra Shallcross, Maesie Speer, and Galen Treuer provide the movement counterpoint for each of these characters respectively, and Justine Carroll and Analiese Miller join the cast in the introductory movement piece.

ABOUT THE COMPANY:
Chaos Theories Theatre draws on a variety of disciplines from the worlds of dance and theatre. We choose to produce work that is unusual, provocative, that focuses on questions that persist and inform our experience of the world and of each other. As a young, independent, and (frankly) shoestring-budgeted theatre company, we hope to utilize our greatest strengths in producing quality work: passion, imagination, and above all, the desire to take risks.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:
Sarah Kane’s work is often recognized more for the author’s reputation than for the play itself. As the "enfant terrible" of British theatre in the nineties, she became infamous at the age of 23 when her first play, Blasted, was savaged by critics. More widespread condemnation followed with her second and third plays. Compounding the stress of this ongoing notoriety, Kane struggled with intense manic depression for many years, but continued to work, and was for some time the writer-in-residence at the Royal Court theatre.
It was only with the premiere of Crave that the critics began to backpedal, re-evaluating Kane’s work to date and abruptly declaring her part of a new renaissance in British playwriting. She is now acknowledged as a major force in British theatre, one whose work is heavily influenced by the work of Beckett, Buchner, Pinter, Barker and Bond.
Crave was originally written under the pseudonym "Marie Kelvedon," in part to escape the controversy attached to the name of Sarah Kane. It was first produced by Paines Plough and
Bright Ltd at the Traverse Theatre on August 13, 1998 as part of the Edinburgh Festival. It
received its English premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in September 1998. Kane had admitted herself to the Maudsley Hospital in south London for treatment of another severe depressive episode but recovered sufficiently to enjoy her play's critical triumph. However, her mental state became more and more unbearable, and in February 1999, after completing her last work, 4.48 Psychosis, she was discovered hanging from her shoelaces in a nearby toilet. She was 28 years old. In 2001, the Royal Court Theatre, which had staged premieres of all but one of her stage plays, procuced a season of her work. The critics were unanimous in their acclaim for the woman they had once scorned as reminding them of "the naughtiest girl in the class."