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TinFish Mission Statement TinFish's goal is to bring to the public productions by or about great European literary figures who are not necessarily associated with the theatre; as well as developing new unpublished works from around the world.
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A little bit more
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| TinFish Productions
was started in February of 1994 by a group of young and extremely committed
individuals who, more than anything else, wanted to produce good theatre.
TinFish is now completing its eighth full season. For the first three years
of its existence, TinFish was a wandering theatre company, performing in
such places as The Greenview Arts Center, Trap Door Theatre, The Heartland
Studio Theatre and The Athenaeum Theatre.
In the spring of 1997, TinFish Productions took over it's then location at 4223 North Lincoln Avenue, renamed the space The TinFish Theatre, and began immediately performing in it. Previous TinFish shows have been, Childe Byron by Romulus Linney, StoryTeller: The Annual Halloween Production, Night of Absurdia by Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, The House of Bernarda Alba by Frederico Garcia Lorca, Marriage by Nikolai Gogol, and Don Juan or the Love of Geometry by Max Frisch. 1997-98 season's productions in the TinFish Theatre included, No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, Square One by Steve Tesich, Ludlow Fair and The Great Nebula in Orion by Lanford Wilson, Fools by Neil Simon, Don't Drink the Water by Woody Allen, and Largo Desolato and Protest by Vaclav Havel. For its 1998-99 season, TinFish Productions presented, Lucia Mad by Don Nigro, TinFish's New Play Showcase I, featuring plays written by TinFish Productions' company members, Greek Fest, a variety of Ancient Greek plays, including Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, Birds by Aristophanes and Electra by Euripides, and The Proposal, The Bear, and The Reluctant Tragic Hero, an evening of one act plays by Anton Chekhov. In October 1999 TinFish Productions moved to its brand new, permanent theatre, just down the street from the old one, at 4247 N. Lincoln Avenue. TinFish has acquired the building and intends to make it TinFish's permanent home for many years to come. In its inaugural, 1999-2000 season, at the new TinFish Theatre, the production company presented, The Good Doctor by Neil Simon, Jacques and His Master by Milan Kundera, Abducting Diana by Dario Fo, War Stories: A Chronology of a Crack Addict by Alberto Finneti, and Private Wars by James McClure. Along with these "prime-time" productions, TinFish also offered, on an off-night schedule, StoryTellers '99, the annual Halloween production and 2 installments of its New Play Showcase, featuring new works, The Death of Socrates, by Jeffrey D. Klein and 3 one acts by Makoto Yamaguchi. For its 2000-2001 season, TinFish presented, The Empress of China by Ruth Wolf, A Roaring Tragedy by Dusan Kovacevic, Screwtape by James Forsyth and based on the story by C.S. Lewis, Each in his own Way by Luigi Pirandello, Kaspar by Peter Hanke and The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney. Along with these "prime-time" productions, TinFish also offered, on an "off-night" schedule, StoryTellers 2000, Amphitryon 38, Rubik's Cubicle, and Like Monkeys. For its 2001-2002 season, TinFish will
present, Cathleen Ni Houlihan by W. B. Yeats, A Florentine Tragedy
by Oscar Wilde, and Ugly Duckling by A. A. Milne as an evening of one act
plays. Also Caligula by Albert Camus, The Coral by Georg
Kaiser, A Company of Wayward Saints by George Herman, and My Sister in
this House by Wendy Kesselman.
Stay tuned. Much more to come!!! |