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"Nobody in Chicago does adolescent angst quite like the Side Project... the intimate Rogers Park company treats young-adult characters as if they’re no less complicated than those in Ibsen."

Time Out Chicago

Production Detail

2009-2010

A derelict basement apartment. Decades. In the future. Mott's DJ career - and his spunk - have turned to dust. Freud hasn't been able to paint for 73 (Or is it 23? 95?) years. Maybe it's time for a new fucking muse.

Now.

What to do with the old one?

"Intense, intriguing and deeply introspective ... Weaver is [a writer] with considerable promise" - Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

"[a] sometimes hilarious, sometimes repugnant symphony of squalor" - Kerry Reid, Chicago Reader




Allison Cain, John Ferrick, Christopher Hainsworth, and Ann Sonneville

AND THE WORK OF
William Anderson (sets), Emily Duffin (props), Miles Polaski (sound),
Greg Poljacik (fights), Seth Reinick (lights),
and Mieka van der Ploeg (costumes)

the side project sessions

[session 1] Playwright Jesse Weaver


The Artist Needs a Wife

A World Premiere by Jesse Weaver
directed by Carolyn Klein

January 15 - February 14

Thursdays - Saturdays @ 8 Sundays @ 3
Previews January 12 - 14