DEBRIEF
Opening Night: June 2, 2009
Theatre: The Gorilla Tango Theatre in Chicago, IL
Written by, directed by and starring: Shawn Bowers and Megan Green
Synopsis: Craigslist is a fascinating place. We can all agree on this, right? It’s full of creepers, dreamers, buyers, sellers, men for women, women for men…all sorts of weirdos who converge on the Internet’s favorite classified page. Well we thought those people deserved their own show, and thus CRAIGSHOW was born. We spent a couple of months culling our favorite posts, communicating with people we found online and even going on a few real world adventures to put together a hodge podge of stories, scenes and other things all based on real posts. Sometimes that meant using verbatim dialogue, sometimes that meant utilizing objects we got from people on the site, sometimes that meant eating disgusting amounts of spam.
POSTERS
SOME OF OUR FAVORITE POSTS
We spent copious amounts of time browsing Craigslist for show-worthy fodder. As you can imagine, most of the best (and by “best,” I mean creepiest) posts came from the Casual Encounters or Missed Connections sections, but we didn’t want the entire show to just be creepy stuff. Below are a few of the posts that we weren’t able to find a place for, but still hold a special place in my heart.
Publicity Photos
A few select shots that we enjoyed.
