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DREAM THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF

"SlowAnna"
by Jeremy Menekseoglu

Chicago- Dream Theatre Company will continue its 2005/2006 season with the world premiere production of SlowAnna written by Chicago playwright Jeremy Menekseoglu. The show runs Friday July 8 through Saturday July 30 at The Side Project at 1520 W Jarvis, Chicago. Preview is Thursday July 7 at 8:00 PM. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM and Sundays at 7:00 PM. Tickets are $15 ($10 for students) and can be reserved by calling 773-474-9070. For more information please visit www.dreamtheatrecompany.com.

Who is willing to teach the unteachable? Is it possible to rekindle the embers of hope, no matter how subdued those embers have become? Miss Moon Young Kim, the newest teacher to be exiled to the nightmarish classrooms of System Sixteen, never dreamed that anything like this school could exist. System Sixteen never dreamed that a teacher like Miss Kim could show up at its doors. What will be seen upon waking from such a terrible slumber, reopening eyes that have been kept shut for so long?

* SlowAnna contains mature themes.

SlowAnna is the most recent of many projects in Dream Theatre Company's rich eight-year history committed to producing original, invigorating theater. SlowAnna is directed by Jeremy Menekseoglu and features the ensemble cast of Anna Weiler, Jennifer Shin, Colby Sellers, Jennifer Christian, Giau Truong, and Jeremy Menekseoglu. SlowAnna is stage managed by Sarah Elizabeth with set and lighting design by Anna Weiler, and sound design by Jeremy Menekseoglu.

From its inspired beginnings in 1998 at the famed Moscow Art Theatre, Dream Theatre Company has produced works in Russia, New York, Berlin and throughout the U.S. From Moscow to Manhattan, and now to Chicago, Dream Theatre members have produced powerful, vivid, and sometimes frightening works. Dream Theatre Company's Chicago productions include: China Is A Museum; Rape; Ismene; Sister 121; Anna, In The Darkness; The Happiness Of Schizophrenia; Rio; and Dream And Fury. From daring comedies and romance to the darkest corners of the human condition, Dream Theatre is committed to breaking down the barriers between actor and audience, reviving a long-forgotten theatrical tradition. The audience are never merely spectators, but instead are actively invited into the dream world of the play where possibilities are endless, nothing is out-of-bounds, and the fourth wall does not exist. The Reader described last seasons Ismene as a "weirdly satisfying fairy tale" and the Chicago Tribune wrote that their play Anna, In The Darkness was "a chilling experience- you feel like you're stuck in that dang living room with her, exposed and susceptible to the lurking danger outside." SlowAnna will continue this exciting tradition.