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MOJO MICKYBO (2019 remount)

Feb 15 & 16, 2019 - Indiana
Feb 27 & 28, 2019 - Chicago

written by Owen McCafferty
directed by Jeff Christian

Presented in partnership with the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and the Davis Theater

Summer. Belfast, Ireland, 1970. 9 year-old best friends Mojo and Mickybo don't care if they're from opposite sides of the rising Catholic/Protestant divide. "Thick as two small thieves," they spend their days in adventures of the imagination, building huts, rolling down hills, teasing the adults, and re-enacting scenes from their favorite movie - Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. 

But as 'The Troubles' increase, the boys' idyllic world is threatened, forcing them to take sides in a conflict they can't understand.

This remount of ITC's 2009 production reunites the original team of actors Robert Kauzlaric and Dan Waller, and director Jeff Christian.

CAST
Robert Kauzlaric (Mojo)
Dan Waller (Mickybo)


CREW
Jen Bukovsky (Stage Manager)
Mike Durst (Lighting Design)
Mikhail Fiskel (Original Music and Sound)
Robert Hornbostel (Sound)
Miles Polaski (Sound)
Elise Kauzlaric (Dialects)
Exuberant performances ...Kauzlaric and Waller fill the tiny bare stage with believable pre-teen energy and quicksilver emotions...The scenes where the two mimic their heroes are comic treasures. "
~ CHICAGO TRIBUNE
 “Robert Kauzlaric and Dan Waller turn in an amazing tour de force, slipping effortlessly from 17 different characters including the two young Belfast lads of the title with little more than the inflection of their voices, gesture or postures. As a showcase for acting ingenuity, ‘Mojo’ is a marvel of a thrill ride.”
~ STEADYSTYLE
In Jeff Christian’s brisk, athletic staging for Seanachai Theatre Company, Robert Kauzlaric and Dan Waller play not only the boys but everyone else in their world...
Their characterizations are crisp, their accents flawless, their depiction of boyhood boisterous, touching,
​and true.”
~ CHICAGO READER
Jeff Christian and his two highly engaging and charismatic stars prove
Just how far they can take a vast imagination on
​a small bare stage."
~ CHICAGO STAGE STANDARD
Robert Kauzlaric and Dan Waller play the “best of lads”... and Jeff Christian’s production is well served by its two actors, who transform on a dime without ever turning their numerous characters into stereotypes and - most importantly - without in any way condescending to their young main characters.
​Adults playing kids is generally
a dicey proposition, but Kauzlaric and Waller
pull it off perfectly.
​​~ TIME OUT CHICAGO
Mojo Mickybo is a tour de force for actors Robert Kauzlaric and Dan Waller"
~ WIND CITY TIMES

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