Eclipse Theatre Company's two-year celebration of the first ten playwrights featured by the company -
The Celebration Series - continues by honoring the work of 2000 featured playwright Lillian Hellman with "The Autumn Garden,"
directed by Jeff Award winning Artistic Director Nathaniel Swift. In this introspective and rarely produced play, old friends
gather in a summer home to rediscover connections, rekindle lost relationships, and find peace - only to find that they can't
escape from the choices of their past. First produced in 1951, "The Autumn Garden" is Hellman's most mature and emotionally
honest play, with a rich cast of imperfect yet noble characters struggling to find comfort amidst the simple tragedy of being
human. Artistic Director Nathaniel Swift said of The Autumn Garden "When we selected the plays in our 2000 season featuring
Lillian Hellman, the Eclipse ensemble fell in love with this beautiful play, but recognized that we were about ten years
too young to fully explore the mature relationships that Hellman created. Now, almost ten years later, the ensemble is
excited to have the opportunity to revisit Lillian Hellman and this masterpiece.
Benjamin Griggs (Steven Fedoruk) examines the choices he's built his life on while talking to Ned Crossman (Chuck Spencer) in The Autumn Garden.
Nick Denery (John Fenner Mays) tries to convince Constance Tuckerman (Millie Hurley) to pose for a new portrait in The Autumn Garden.
Eclipse Theatre Company's online post-show discussion:
The Autumn Garden: a story in images
In the last two days, I’ve written posts about video scenes from the show and an audio interview with me, so I thought I’d continue the media trend this morning by sharing some of the wonderful photographs we have to help us tell the story of The Autumn Garden. Our photographer Scott Cooper, who has a [...]
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Watch scenes from The Autumn Garden
The sleek, newly redesigned STAGE Channel has two video clips of scenes from The Autumn Garden - click on the image above to watch Ned Crossman and General Griggs examine their lives, or the image below to watch Nick Denery try to convince Constance Tuckerman to pose for a new portrait. [...]
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A conversation with the director
If you haven’t discovered Theatre in Chicago’s podcast interviews, you’ve missed a lot of great conversations with Chicago’s best artists. And now’s a great time to discover them - I sat down for my first interview last week, and it was posted yesterday. It’s a 30 minute or so conversation that wanders around through our current [...]
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Friday photo rescue
Another Part of the Forest, from the 2000 Lillian Hellman season.
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Benjamin Griggs (Steven Fedoruk) examines the choices he's built his life on while talking to Ned Crossman (Chuck Spencer) in The Autumn Garden.
Nick Denery (John Fenner Mays) tries to convince Constance Tuckerman (Millie Hurley) to pose for a new portrait in The Autumn Garden.
Eclipse Theatre Company's online post-show discussion:
In the last two days, I’ve written posts about video scenes from the show and an audio interview with me, so I thought I’d continue the media trend this morning by sharing some of the wonderful photographs we have to help us tell the story of The Autumn Garden. Our photographer Scott Cooper, who has a [...]
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The sleek, newly redesigned STAGE Channel has two video clips of scenes from The Autumn Garden - click on the image above to watch Ned Crossman and General Griggs examine their lives, or the image below to watch Nick Denery try to convince Constance Tuckerman to pose for a new portrait. [...]
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If you haven’t discovered Theatre in Chicago’s podcast interviews, you’ve missed a lot of great conversations with Chicago’s best artists. And now’s a great time to discover them - I sat down for my first interview last week, and it was posted yesterday. It’s a 30 minute or so conversation that wanders around through our current [...]
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Another Part of the Forest, from the 2000 Lillian Hellman season.
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Eclipse Theatre's 2008 Celebration Series Season
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