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"Under the direction of Evan Jackson, Lydia Hiller and David Skvarla articulate their personae's manifesti with dignity befitting the solemnity of the topic and their physical confrontations with appropriately visceral vigor. Leslie Hull, George Ellison and Ann Marie Lewis likewise display an unprejudiced candor as commoners for whom idealism is costly, but pragmatism all too affordable... [Violence] deftly choreographed for this Idle Muse production by Libby Beyreis" 
-Mary Barnidge, Windy City Times

"Stellar Cast...twists and turns will keep you on your toes...[Dave Skvarla and Lydia Hiller] are absolutely captivating to watch."
-Alexis Bugajski,  Picture This Post

"Zettelmaier pens a tale about classism. He shows us how folks assimilate into or rebel against their station...A fierce Skvarla balances it nicely between barbaric and nobility... Skvarla's commanding presence doesn't stop the scrappy Hiller from attacking him. Their feud has some unexpected twists as they both wrestle with their identities and the accompanying realities."
-Katy Walsh,  The Fourth Walsh


THE SCULLERY MAID
A CHICAGO PREMIERE BY JOSEPH ZETTELMAIER
DIRECTED BY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR EVAN JACKSON  

NOW - APRIL 9, 2017
5451 N Braodway, Chicago, IL 60640 
                                                                                                   
As King Edward celebrates an uneasy truce with France, the lowliest servant in Nottingham castle, Miriam the scullery maid, initiates a murder plot that will see him dead before the night is done - no matter the cost.  Loyalties and conspiracies unravel as a raging tempest sets in, giving rise to new betrayals and unearthing long-buried secrets as Miriam approaches the point of no return.  Religious, political and familial identities all clash with storm-like intensity in a medieval thriller that asks:  are we defined by our prejudices or can we escape becoming what we hate?

Idle Muse Theatre Company 
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