Waukegan Theatre Festival (WTF)

Marking the end of our year long virtual residency, Three Brothers Theatre presents six staged readings of new full length plays from six brilliant playwrights on August 3rd and 4th in Waukegan, IL as part of our Waukegan Theater Festival. All readings will take place at our original location at 115 N Genesee Street. See one or see all six shows! Check out our lineup below:

AUGUST 3RD

SATURDAY at 10:30AM

Tethered by Ron Anahaw, directed by Liv McDaniel
A living room play for the non-living. Vincent has ghosts tethered to him, but he doesn’t know it. These ghosts fight for control of Vincent, but the dynamic is disrupted when Vincent’s mother passes and sees the influence they have over her son.

SATURDAY at 1PM

Enduring Jest by Zach Barr, directed by AJ Schwartz
A loose adaptation of the novel “Infinite Jest,” with one catch: the playwright hasn’t read it. Built solely out of verbatim text from interviews with people who have actually read the book, this play reconstructs David Foster Wallace’s story, as best as its readers are able to do so themselves. An investigation of how our passions define us – and the often impossible task of explaining those passions to others.

SATURDAY at 3:30PM

Chuan & Eve by Lyra Nalan, directed by Joel Willison
In the near-future Manhattan, Chuan, a Chinese immigrant encounters Eve, a therapist who encourages him to seek their free therapy program to help his mother who has schizophrenia. While Chuan makes significant progress with Eve, questions regarding Eve’s qualifications arise as the mysterious death of her former patient connects to her. Chuan & Eve is a 90-minute play that delves into the ethical dilemmas of integrating AI technology in mental health and its effects on marginalized groups.

SATURDAY at 7PM

End of the Day, Ep 1 by Adrienne Dawes, directed by Mack Finley
Tud, Myleigh, and Lancelot are perhaps the only surviving contestants of a British reality dating show broadcast during a massive extinction event. Isolated from the outside world, they dance between denial and acceptance, searching for love and meaning in a pointless, absurd existence. Inspired by absurdist theatre, Sims 4, and Love Island UK, “End of the Day” is an eight-play cycle that examines the unique anxieties, uncertainties, and frustrations of trying to find love in the “coronial age.”

AUGUST 4TH

SUNDAY at 12PM

The Final Séance of Madame LeFay by Chase Wheaton-Werle, directed by Eileen Tull
On October 31, 1896, for her last seance ever, Madame Allisandre LeFay would pull a feat more impossible than speaking to the dead. She summons the New York City’s most ardent medium-defrauder Elton Rochester to the stage with this proposal: before the session is done, one would be converted or the other debunked.

SUNDAY at 3:30PM

HypergaMater by Marjorie Muller, directed by Ramona Rotten
“If you are doomed to mother him emotionally, he must father you financially.” This is the motto of Alanna Aberdeen’s protege program through which she teaches women the art of snagging geriatric billionaires to secure the lifestyle they deserve. However, when she chooses skeptic Robin Rigby to join her program, both women become disillusioned with the lives (and men) they’ve chosen and the world literally begins to crumble until they are forced to ask an age-old question. Is the grass really greener on the other side? Or, worse, is there no grass anywhere at all?