Annoucing our 2021/2022 Season

November 12 – December 12, 2021
God of Carnage
By Yasmina Reza
Translated by Christopher Hampton
Co-Directed by Derek Bertelsen and Robert Tobin
at The Edge Off-Broadway Theatre, 1133 W. Catalpa Ave., Chicago

Two high-strung couples, Alan and Annette Raleigh and Michael and Veronica Novak, decide to meet one evening for a civilized discussion about a playground altercation between their two young sons. What follows is a comically explosive downhill slide from polite, political correctness to full-on character assassination. A no-holds-barred look at what happens when the littlest things end up pushing us completely over the edge.

February 26 & 27, 2022
The 13th Annual Writer’s Series – Virtual Performances!
A Lovely Day for a Boating Trip
By Lindsey Brown 
Directed by Dana Anderson, Carol Ann Tan, and Robert Tobin

Since the company’s founding, AstonRep has hosted its annual Writer’s Series – a festival featuring Chicago-based and national playwrights who get an opportunity to workshop near-finished plays and works in development. This season’s readings will be streamed for free via Zoom, followed by talkback sessions with the writers.

May 13 – June 12, 2022
When We Were Young and Unafraid – Chicago Premiere!
By Sarah Treem
Directed by Sara Pavlak McGuire
at The Edge Off-Broadway Theatre, 1133 W. Catalpa Ave., Chicago

In the early 1970s, before Roe v. Wade, before the Violence Against Women Act, Agnes has turned her quiet bed and breakfast into one of the few spots where victims of domestic violence can seek refuge. But to Agnes’s dismay, her latest runaway, Mary Anne, is beginning to influence Agnes’s college-bound daughter Penny. As the drums of a feminist revolution grow louder outside of Agnes’s tiny world, Agnes is forced to confront her own presumptions about the women she’s spent her life trying to help.