Boys & Girls
May 16 - June 15, 2008
Chicago Cultural Center

Never Swim Alone
by Daniel MacIvor, dir. Margot Bordelon*
The Shallow End
by Wendy MacLeod, dir. Meghan Beals McCarthy

#1 Don't Miss Show
in Chicago

-TimeOut Chicago

Meet four girls about to grow up and two men who never will.

In Never Swim Alone, Frank and Bill are lifelong buddies playing a sadistic and hilarious game of one-upsmanship that masks a deadly secret from their past.

In The Shallow End, Addie spends one summer at the city pool, torn between the popular girls laying out and the 8th grade outcast reading in the shade.

"Frighteningly comedic . . . anti-naturalism and stylization at its best"

-Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune

"Acted by Theatre Seven's excellent ensemble with painful, sometimes thrilling precision."

-Lawrence Bommer, Chicago Reader

"Directed with head-turning precision . . . An emotional nakedness that can't be faked"

"Delivered by Golden and Stojak with two qualities rare in actors this young: gravitas and menace"

-Christopher Piatt, TimeOut Chicago

Boys & Girls

Never Swim Alone
by Daniel MacIvor, directed by Margot Bordelon*
The Shallow End
by Wendy MacLeod, directed by Meghan Beals McCarthy

Cast

Never Swim Alone
Frank - Brian Golden*
Bill - Brian Stojak*
Referee - Rebecca Buller

The Shallow End
Addie - Olivia Cygan/Hannah White
Becca - Emma Jane Hostetler/Sophie La Cava
Marjorie - Sydney Lynch/Ilyssa Ernstein
Teresa - Zoe Levin/Lindsay Lyhus

Design Team

Stage Manager - Ellen Willett
Asst. Stage Manager - Jonathan Ravenscroft
Set Designer - Charlie Olson*
Light Designer - Justin Wardell*
Sound Designer - Steve Ptacek
Costume Designer - Brenda Winstead*
Props Master - Jess Kenyon

Boys & Girls May 16 - June 15, 2008 Chicago Cultural Center

Boys & Girls
May 16 - June 15, 2008
Chicago Cultural Center