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Village Players Theatre
Oak Park’s Center for Performing Arts
Presents:
LOVE AT LAST
An Evening of Storytelling with Jim May and Megan Wells
Oak Park, IL-
Jim May and Megan Wells tell heart-opening stories of precious love
found in family and friends. Then joining in duet telling, they
perform a chapter from Ray Bradbury's famous novel; Dandelion Wine.
The evening will be rounded out with love songs from Village
Players
own Paul McKenna.
Jim May, speaks in the natural,
matter-of-fact style of the fathers, horse traders, and small-town
raconteurs who populated rural McHenry County, Illinois where his
family has lived since the 1840's. For adult audiences, Jim tells
hilarious and touching original stories of growing up in the tiny
Catholic farming community of Spring Grove. Jim May's stories have
taken him across the United States and Europe. Chicagoans know him from
his appearances on WGN's Roy Leonard Show and from the Studs Terkel
radio show on WFMT-FM. He received a 1989 Chicago Emmy award for a
WTTW-Channel 11 production of his original story, "A Bell For Shorty."
Read more about Jim May at www.storytelling.org/JimMay.
Megan
Wells, a national award winning storyteller and Jeff-award winning
Director, combines the intimacy of storytelling with the impact of
theater. After three years of Chicago theater, Megan was exposed
to
storytelling and converted her career. Megan's expansive
repertoire
includes personal stories, folktales, ghost stories and literary tales
enriched with dramatic clarity from her theater roots. Megan
authors
and performs Story Experiences, long-form stories similar to one-woman
shows. Megan is a touring artist but also a Chicago favorite,
appearing at Millenium Park, Taste of Chicago, the Cultural Center,
Chicago Symphony, the Art Institute as well as WFMT and US99. Learn
more about Megan at www.meganwells.com.
'Love At Last' performs Saturday, February 23 at 7:30 pm.
All tickets are $17, and include a stamped postcard to
send to a loved one.
Presented in the Play Ground Theatre of the newly renovated Village
Players Theatre located at 1010 W. Madison. Plenty of parking is
available on the street. The theatre is handicap accessible; please
call ahead to arrange for special seating. Tickets available at www.village-players.org
or by calling 866-764-1010.
Village
Players Theatre, Oak Park's Center for Performing Arts offers an
eclectic mix of entertainment that empowers and inspires while
exploring the human condition.

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