Catch As Catch Can
A bold mediation on family obligation, race and identity
Catch As Catch Can
Afterward, reflecting on the play, you may marvel at how finely Chung has woven her thematic threads (about family, heredity, nationality, genetics) into the tapestry that unravels with such violence in the play's second half.
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Catch As Catch Can
A bold mediation on family obligation, race and identity
Why see Catch As Catch Can?
Steppenwolf Return
Mia Chung's powerful mediation on the intricacies and dark truths of family life comes to the Steppenwolf this summer! Directed by Amy Morton and featuring an all-ensemble cast of Gary Cole, Audrey Francis and Tim Hopper, Catch As Catch Can flips the familiar family play structure on its head, with the three actors taking up six roles for a tour-de-force replication of long time neighbours the Phelans and the Lavecchias.
What Is It About?
The story opens on the family matriarchs Roberta and Theresa in the midst of their weekly gossip session. Roberta complains about her son Robbie's divorce from a South Korean woman, whilst Theresa mediates on her son Tim's engagement to a Korean-American woman. Whilst subtle racial divides are established, their seemingly inane natterings give way to an earth shattering event that challenges perspectives and provokes thoughts in a bold new way.
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