Yes, it’s been a busy and eventful several months since SiNNERMAN last hit the stage in Chicago, but the ensemble has a lot in store for the theatre world in the months ahead.
And we’re starting it all out with the debut show of our fifth anniversary season, Sweet Confinement, which is set to open Thursday, Nov. 17 at the Viaduct Theatre (3111 N. Western Avenue).
Penned by SiNNERMAN Ensemble co-executive director and playwright Anna Carini, the After Dark Award-winning play (Outstanding New Work, 2008, among three other wins for the production that year) Sweet Confinement is a Chicago original and represents a homecoming of sorts for the SINNERMAN theatre family.
The story is of five twenty-somethings brought together in an unexpected reunion in a bathroom. The show sold out its run and was described as “a little show with a big heart that … dares us not to care about these people” by the Chicago Reader, as “a truthful, well-observed portrait of life in miniature” by Time Out Chicago.
“Sweet Confinement finds five people who have grown up together, shared love and loss together, meeting in a familiar bathroom to deal with a crisis on hand,” Carini said. “They must confront the actions that have brought them there together as well as each other and the history they all share. Can they handle it? How do they handle it? And how will they ever move on from here?”
The show kicks off SiNNERMAN’s fifth anniversary season and will be directed by Brea Hayes. Performances during the show’s run — Nov. 17-Dec. 17 — will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays. During Thanksgiving week, Thursday and Friday shows will be canceled, though a special industry night show will be held the following Monday, Nov. 28.
Cast, production team and ticketing details will follow shortly.