Coming Soon: Floyd Collins

BoHo Theatre invites you to Save-the-Date for our upcoming auditions for Floyd Collins.

Information will be listed on BoHo Theatre's Facebook Page and on our website this week. 

We look forward to seeing you there!

BINGO with BoHo!

Get out your favorite Bingo & SteamPunk sweater! It’s time for BINGO FOR BOHO!




Location:
Cooper’s
1232 West Belmont Avenue
Chicago, IL 60657

Time:  4pm, January 29th

Come see TARTUFFE on Sunday, Jan 29th at 2pm and then join us afterwards across the street at COOPER’S for free food, fabulous prizes and fantastic fun! Did we mention there will be free food? Because there will be free food! Can’t get a ticket to TARTUFFE? Just come over to Cooper’s at 4pm to play!

Round 1: Bingo cards are 50 cents and the prizes are so amazing that we have to bag them and keep them a secret!

Round 2: Bingo cards are only $1, and the prizes are:

• Two Tickets to any BoHo show this season 
• Two Tickets to the Marriott Theatre 
• Two Tickets to the Blue Man Group 
• Four bottles of wine 
• One mystery prize! 

Round 3: Bingo cards are $5 and the round is a 50/50! If you get the winning bingo card, you will win HALF the money earned in that round!

Even better- if you show up in your favorite SteamPunk outfit, we’ll give you a free bingo card! Be like Tartuffe and tell us your best lie at the front door & we’ll let you in to our private room with free food, great prizes and fun!

Jeremy Trager: Tartuffe on "Tartuffe"

We don't really know what we've learned until we can look back on something that is finished.

My freshman year in college, I served on the running crew for Tartuffe. Moliere seemed much more sophisticated and rich (in both appearance and content) compared to my earlier perception of it being a brutish farce. As it turns out, Moliere (like any playwright) is subject to stylistic variations within his body of work. He's also subject to the vision of directors, actors, and designers. Like Shakespeare, Moliere's stories can be moved from century to century, setting to setting - a testament to his relevance and universality. 

Tartuffe is the antagonist, yes. He is a very tangible threat to every other character in the show. He is in some ways heartless. Certainly, he lacks morality. But he's coming from destitution; fighting to survive in an economically unfair society where the rich live like royalty and people like him eat scraps off the street. I can't really fault him for conning his way into luxury. That he uses religion as his means of manipulation speaks to his cleverness. One need only tune in to coverage of the Presidential caucuses to see that religion is still wielded as a way to gain favor. Tartuffe has too sordid a past to run for President of the United States, but his dog and pony show is quite similar to what we see in today's sociopolitical landscape. I suppose then, Tartuffe... or should I say, Moliere... was ahead of his time. . 

At this juncture I'm still uncertain of many of the design elements that will come into play during tech week when we get to Theatre Wit. But I can speak to something I've already learned in this process, which is the humanity of my character. I remember watching our college production and thinking Tartuffe was a monstrous creature. This was - and is - the type of character I am most interested in playing. At that age, I could not really put into words why I was so interested in exploring the "bad guys." Now, as a more mature student of acting, I can attest that the "bad guys" often turn out to be the most complex and surprisingly human in any given story. After all, what is more human than to be deeply flawed? 

-- Jeremy Trager, is a Jeff Award, After Dark Award, and Broadway World Chicago Award-winning actor and singer who studies vocal performance and Shakespeare in his spare time. Tartuffe will be his first collaboration with BoHo Theatre.