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The End
by Andy Gershenzon
Directed by Vance Smith

January 20 - March 2, 2008

Royal George Theatre
1641 North Halsted Avenue
Cast & Crew | Production Photos | Press
What would you do to survive in a ruined world? Gus and Jacob are trying to get by in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. When all hope seems lost, the last woman alive stumbles into their midst. And she's got a really big knife. The End is a tense, darkly comic showdown from playwright Andy Gershenzon.

CAST
Jacob John Byrnes
Gus Robert Kauzlaric
Trish Lori Myers*

PRODUCTION STAFF
Producer/Director Vance Smith*
Playwright Andy Gershenzon
Stage Manager Jessie Wayburn
Lighting Designer Dennis Grimes
Set Designer Alan Donahue
Costume Designer Brani Ivanova
Fight Choreographer Matt Engle
Assistant Director Dennis Grimes
Graphic Designer Amy Jahnke

  *Black Sheep ensemble member

Photos by Paul Metreyeon

Press

If it weren’t so real, Andy Gershenzon’s saga of surviving the apocalypse could be dismissed as an exercise in extremities. Two "Godot"-like refugees hole up in a concrete cavern. Gus (a loquacious Robert Kauzlaric) is an irritating optimist full of worthless New Age nostrums; his dumpmate Jacob (dour John Byrnes) concentrates on "conserving" himself. Their equilibrium is disrupted by the arrival of perhaps the world’s last female: equally hungry but not as horny, machete-wielding Trish (Lori Myers) is bent on giving herself and the world a second chance-which means two men is one too many. Vance Smith’s staging is taut and true.

—Lawrence Bommer, Chicago Reader

...witty and always articulate... suggests a writer with some promise. And in Vance Smith's staging for the emerging Black Sheep Productions, there's a very spirited and intense performance from the young actress Lori Myers.

—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

...the three-member ensemble is intensely keyed into the slashing humor and shape-shifting moods of their unwashed desperados.

—Nina Metz, NewCity

Gershenzon has a way with a lyrical phrase.

—Mary Shen Barnidge, Windy City Times

...it's like Apocalypse Now as penned by Diablo Cody.

—Kris Vire, Time Out Chicago

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