After several years of seeking funding for the design and development of a website, followed by serious discussion, planning and implementation, INDEPENDENT PLAYERS is proud and excited to launch its new website. Now, as it begins its 38th Season, IP is realizing its dream to be able to more effectively spread the word about what it is currently doing (as well as what it has done in the past) in a really big way. For 37 years, IP has [...]
Independent Players will officially open its 2015-2016 Season with an entertaining musical revue conceived and directed by Doug Orlyk entitled LOVE4 (LOVE to the 4th power). LOVE4 features a variety of songs from contemporary musical theatre. So what’s with that title? Director Doug Orlyk explains: “The songs we’ve selected explore love. It’s all about the most heartfelt of emotions --- the four interrelated experiences of wanting love, finding love, keeping love and losing love.” Set to open on September 25 and to run [...]
In its first appearance at the Elgin Fringe Festival, Independent Players will present Eugene Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano (1950) a hilarious unique satire on the ordinary English middle class. In this play, Mr. and Mrs. Smith talk to each other at cross purposes, while their guests, Mr. and Mrs. Martin, fail to understand and the Maid and a Fire Chief enter the fray, and get nowhere at all. The Bald Soprano inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques and helped [...]
The remainder of the 2015-2016 Season of Independent Players is rapidly taking shape at this time. The shows which will complete the season as it now stands have been selected, but because the schedule of dates has not yet been officially set by the City of Elgin, they cannot be announced. That being said, the show which will be produced in March is entitled The Octette Bridge Club (called by one critic “A Norman Rockwell illustration come to life.”) is [...]
