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Scream! Bleed! Take Off Your Clothes!: Stuart Gordon and Chicago’s Organic Theater Company de Mary Griswold

Scream! Bleed! Take Off Your Clothes!: Stuart Gordon and Chicago’s Organic Theater Company: Chicago Visions and Revisions

Autor Mary Griswold, Cordis Heard, Jim Rinnert, Mike Saad
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 oct 2026
A captivating firsthand account of Chicago’s groundbreaking, tumultuous Organic Theater Company.

When the founder of the Organic Theater Company died in 2020, the Chicago Tribune asked, “Did one person invent Chicago theater? If so, it was Stuart Gordon.” And yet, this iconic theater group is arguably the most influential Chicago company whose story has never been fully told. 

In its heyday, from 1969 through 1985, the Organic’s high-spirited, gutsy, and close-knit company created more than thirty idiosyncratic works. A springboard for playwright David Mamet and for the television series ER, it also was formative in the careers of many well-known actors, including Joe Mantegna, André De Shields, Meshach Taylor, and Dennis Franz. Scream! Bleed! Take Off Your Clothes! is the story of a young theater company that always pushed boundaries with an anarchic exuberance. Drawing on extensive interviews and archival research, this insiders’ account, assembled by three Organic members and an artistic associate, details those exciting productions and the company’s complicated internal dynamics, while also positioning the group within Chicago’s vibrant theater scene and the larger culture of the time.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226851884
ISBN-10: 0226851885
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 16 color plates, 85 halftones
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Chicago Visions and Revisions

Notă biografică

Mary Griswold enjoyed a fifty-year career as a scenic artist and designer with five Organic Theater Company credits. She lives in Evanston, Illinois. Cordis Heard is an actor and teacher based in Chicago and New York who performed with the Organic Theater Company from 1971 to 1977. She has also been seen both on and off Broadway, as well as in television, film, and commercials. Jim Rinnert (1944–2025) was posthumously inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame in recognition of his work as a writer, visual artist, philanthropist, and AIDS activist. Mike Saad, a veteran of over forty film and television projects, worked on ten productions at the Organic Theater from 1973 to 1980, culminating in a 1980 Chicago Emmy Award for the WTTW-PBS production of Bleacher Bums.

Cuprins

Preface

1. In the Beginning . . .
2. Local Boy Makes Good
3. WARP!
4. Rebuilding the Company, Finding a New Home
5. The Magical Mickery Tour
6. Shoestring Theaters
7. Adventures with Huckleberry Finn
8. Spreading Out
9. Cops and Sirens
10. Take Me Out to the Ball Game
11. The Road to the Buckingham: A Grown-Up Theater
12. Are We Still a Company?
13. One Last Season at the Leo Lerner
14. All That Glitters . . .
15. The House of the Rising Debt
16. Back to Basics: Jackpot!
17. The Forever War: The Beginning of the End
18. Exeunt All

Acknowledgments
Appendix: Production History and Credits for the Original Casts
Index

Recenzii

“A vivid, clear-eyed portrait of the quintessential Chicago theater company under the direction of the brilliant Stuart Gordon—restless, inventive, and driven by risk. This book captures the work as it was actually made: collaborative, combustible, and impossible to ignore.”

“A perfect snapshot of Chicago's Organic Theater—certainly the most exciting time I've had over a lifetime in show business.”

“This candid, insightful insiders’ chronicle of the innovative practice and turbulent behind-the-scenes drama of the first great ensemble troupe of Chicago’s ‘Off-Loop’ theater explosion of the 1970s and ’80s is an essential addition to the American theater history bookshelf.”

“To understand contemporary American theater, you have to know about theater in Chicago. To understand theater in Chicago—this is no exaggeration—you have to know about the catalyst: the epic, epoch-making, often apocalyptic, and only semi-apocryphal Organic Theater Company. Here, at last, is the story of how it achieved greatness, repeatedly, on a dare and a dollar-ninety-eight budget.”