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  • Review “Richard III” (Babes with Blades): Bloody Race to the Crown!

    Tuesday, September 6, 2022 Babes with Blades Theatre Company, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Babes with Blades Theatre Company, in partnership with the University of Illinois Chicago’s Disability Cultural Center, presents RICHARD III.  The Babes take on William Shakespeare’s tale of one man’s bloody and ruthless climb to the throne. In BWBTC fashion, the show starts and ends with the 13-member ensemble battling it out. Fight director Maureen Yasko impressively ...

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  • Review “Othello” (Babes with Blades): Passionate and Powerful!

    Tuesday, April 30, 2019 Babes with Blades Theatre Company, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Babes with Blades Theatre Company presents OTHELLO. Under the skillful direction of Mignon McPherson Stewart, the Babes mount an all-female cast for OTHELLO. William Shakespeare penned this tragedy play about jealousy, betrayal, revenge and redemption. The focal point of the story is the love between Othello (played by an outstanding Brianna Buckley) and Desdemonda (played by ...

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  • Review “The Lady Demands Satisfaction” (Babes with Blades): A Jolly Farce

    Thursday, August 9, 2018 Babes with Blades Theatre Company, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Babes With Blades Theatre Company starts its 21st Season with the world premiere of THE LADY DEMANDS SATISFACTION. Playwright Arthur M. Jolly pens a fun farce. His story follows Trothe's (played by the delightfully obtuse Deanalis Resto) quest to secure her inheritance. Jolly uses forbidden love, mistaken identities and witty dialogue to captivate the audience. Under ...

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  • Review “The Good Fight” (Babes with Blades Theatre Company): Inspiring Present-Day Gumption

    Wednesday, January 17, 2018 Babes with Blades Theatre Company, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Babes With Blades Theatre Company (BWBTC) continues its 20th Anniversary Season: “Origins” with the Chicago premiere of The Good Fight. Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, Gertrude Harding, Harriet Kerr, Grace Roe, Emily Wilding Davison were women suffragettes in London. Playwright Anne Bertram gives us a peek into the turbulent era that secured a woman's right to vote. Bertram starts her ...

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  • Review “Patchwork Drifter” (Babes with Blades): True Grit!

    Monday, August 31, 2015 Babes with Blades Theatre Company, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Babes with BladesTheatre Company presents the World Premiere of PATCHWORK DRIFTER. Playwright Jennifer L. Mickelson takes a look at how the west was won from a woman’s perspective.  Mickelson uses her five-female-character-driven play to illustrate the challenges of the wild Wyoming frontier.  A shopkeeper (played by Delia Ford) is raising her daughters (played by Eliza Rose ...

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  • Review “WITCH SLAP!” (Babes with Blades): A Calderon of Personalities

    Monday, August 25, 2014 Babes with Blades Theatre Company, Spinster Says Permalink 0

      Babes with Blades presents the World Premiere of WITCH SLAP! Playwright Jeff Goode explores the male corruption by the Puritanical driven witch hunts.  The 2013-2014 winner of “Joining Sword & Pen,” WITCH SLAP! is the herstory told from the witches’ perspectives.  Goode’s characters represent a wide range of sorceresses:  the crone, the gypsy, the vamp, the ...

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  • Review “L’Imbecile” (Babes with Blades): Twisted Gender-Bender Burlesque

    Saturday, May 10, 2014 Babes with Blades Theatre Company, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    The Babes with Blades Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of L’IMBECILE. The Babes was established to advance female-focused, action-oriented plays on stage.  Almost every Babes’ production I’ve seen has humor infused in the combat.  This time around, the Babes surrender their blades to tackle Commedia dell’arte.   They still showcase a few skirmishes but the physicality ...

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