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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Books Wordstock Kickoff: 2nd Story
Posted by Alison Hallett on Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:31 PM
Wordstock officially kicks off tonight with a performance from Chicago-based storytelling group 2nd City.
Here's what Wordstock director Greg Netzer had to say about the Chicago group, specifically in response to my question about what differentiates 2nd City from local storytelling events:
They’re really different. There is the no-script narrative aspect, but the people in this group come out of the Chicago theater community, and in particular the Goodman theater, so they have this real attention to theatricality, to stage presence, and they also introduce live music into the program. They came out here [to check out the space], and I left that meeting with them going “Holy shit, I’ve stumbled into the coolest group in America."
So: Live music, theater, storytelling, tonight at the Bagdad, 8 pm, $20. Tickets are no longer available online; try the venue. For more on Wordstock, see their website, or my feature here, though be warned that it's probably crammed with more food puns than you can stomach (!!!).
Also, if you missed Wordstock headliner Sherman Alexie on Think Out Loud this morning, it's downloadable here, and worth a listen. (If you failed to a get a ticket to his reading this weekend, you're out of luck—according to the Wordstock site, it's sold out.)
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