Chicago Dramatists Saturday Series
presents
When They Came
by MT Cozzola
directed by Jeremy Aluma°
based on a story by Debbie Urbanski
a staged reading

Saturday, June 17, 2017 at 2pm
at Chicago Dramatists 
1105 W. Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60642

Tickets are Pay-What-You-Can
email me at jeremyjacobaluma@gmail.com to reserve you a seat

CAST
Suellen Burton* as GRACE
Nick Trengove as JEFF
John Green* as HERB
Mélisa Breiner-Sanders* as DANA
Michael Stock as MR. LUCAS
Fiona Garretson as RITA
Reginald Robinson as JOHNNY
Samantha Newcomb as SUZIE
Katie Travers as TERRY LUCAS
and Angela Horn reading Stage Directions

The running time is 75 minutes.

In When They Came, the citizens of a typical American town recover from the loss of a group of aliens who had come to them in need of a new home. The citizens defend their actions, interrogate each other, and reveal their deepest hopes and fears as they seek to explain, as a community, how their hospitable intentions resulted in disaster.

Part Isaac Asimov and part Will Eno, this whimsical world explores what it means to be human. When our desire to take care of our immigrant population conflicts with our desire to protect our homes and communities, what do we choose? Can we have both?

About Chicago Dramatists Saturday Series

Every Saturday afternoon at 2:00 PM (except for holiday weekends), Chicago Dramatists hosts a Saturday Series event in their theatre. Most Saturday Series events are public readings of plays-in-progress. All plays read in the Saturday Series are directed, rehearsed, and presented with minimal staging. After each reading, the audience members are invited to fill out written response sheets and to join in a moderated post-reading discussion.

° Member of SDC, the union of professional stage directors and choreographers.
* Member of AEA, the union of professional stage actors and stage managers.