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Caffeine
Theatre
presents SAILING
TO BYZANTIUM Sandra Deer’s play Sailing to Byzantium joins William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Maud Gonne on the weekend of the Dublin Easter Rising. Drawn in by her love of Yeats’ poetry, Deer explains that she “wanted to write a play that was about people who make literature… about their lives, the history they lived in, and its relationship to their work.” Sailing to Byzantium asks questions of love, loyalty, grief, and the worth of art. “…what the poet can dream, his nation can create.” “From
what I’ve observed of love, people don’t give their hearts, *******Performance Archive******* "Theatre companies come and go but few open with as intelligent and polished a show....a first class play, delivered in an enchanting production."---Tom Williams, www.chicagocritic.com Sailing To Byzantium burns with passion, politics, and despair. We don't want the conversation to end. ---Terry Loncaric, Shaw News service "dazzling conversation to keep us enraptured for a neat two hours" ---Mary Shen Barnidge, Windy City Times "...brilliantly acted, directed without a gram of fat.... Do you have fifteen bucks?... You will go see this play if you know what's good for you!!! --- C.J.Laity, www.chicagopoetry.com “Highly Recommended” for its "artfulness, humor and poetry... beautiful clarity and wit..."—Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun Times "......another new theatre company worth watching has arrived in Chicago....." ____Web Behrens, Chicago FreePress
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