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"Sincerely" Chosen For Chicago Festival
Encore Performance Sunday, Aug. 27, 3 p.m.
Suggested Donation $3
“Sincerely,” an original play developed, written, and produced by Clemson University theatre students has been selected to appear at the 2006 Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival in Chicago.
“This is quite an honor to have been chosen,” said Clemson acting professor Carrie Ann Collins, who directed the play. “The festival has earned a reputation for providing stages for emerging theatre companies and actors, original works, as well as renegade and ambulatory groups.”
The ensemble theatre piece dramatizes the powerful and universal emotions found in letters. “Sincerely explores all kinds of inspiring letters,” Collins said. “Love letters, war letter, children’s letters, and goodbye letters are examples of the personal correspondences that provided the text for this ensemble-developed play.”
The cast looked at hundreds of letter while searching for the right words to develop the script. During the process, some interesting themes emerged, said Collins. “The cast discovered that throughout time humans have had an impulse to write down soul-shaking experiences and share them with others. From birth to death, our memories and the written evidence of these memories chronicle our lives, as well as chronicle history.”
The Clemson Players premiered the new play last spring in the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts.
Around the Coyote Fall Festival is a juried event, and not all applicants are selected. Actress and theatre producer Cynthia Castiglione curates the festival and selected the Clemson Players to participate. “The festival this year is going to be amazing, with involvement from every different branch of the arts that you can think of and we are excited that Clemson University is going to be a part of it.”
Around the Coyote Festival takes place September 8-10 in the Bucktown and Wicker Park neighborhoods of the Windy City, and features both the visual and performing arts. Each year, hundreds of artists, including painters, photographers, actors, performance artists, dancers, poets and filmmakers, participate in this unique arts festival.
“Sincerely” will be performed on one of the festival’s main stages. Productions take
place in Chopin Theatre, an historic theatre built in 1917 located in Wicker Park.
History of Around the Coyote Festival
Around the Coyote Arts Festival was founded by Parisian gallery owner Jim Happy-Delpech in 1989. When Happy-Delpech arrived in Chicago, he discovered a contemporary and experimental art community that was extremely rich, diverse, and innovative, but also largely unknown, even to the people of Chicago.
In 1990, he joined forces with writer Elizabeth Burke and gallery directors Sam Johnson and Kevin Freitas to establish an annual festival modeled after the bohemian art fairs held in Paris. The festival, the first of its kind in Chicago, is held in the historic Bucktown/Wicker Park neighborhoods of Chicago. This area is home to one of the nation's largest concentrations of artists, and is centered around the landmark 1930s skyscraper, The Northwest Tower, nicknamed the Coyote Tower by local artists.
Today, the festival is an established part of Chicago’s cultural landscape and has grown into a centerpiece for the Wicker Park and Bucktown arts community, serving up two multi-media art festivals each year, as well as offering educational programs, a membership program for artists, and an emerging art gallery.
