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Claudia Hommel
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“Escanaba in Da Moonlight ”
runs September 27 through October 29, 2006

Stephen Loch, Jay Olson, Yosh Hayashi (center), Jason Huysman
Circle Theatre photo

Escanaba in Da Moonlight
written by Jeff Daniels
review by Ed Vincent

The acting is wonderful, grand, and expert in all things from physical
motion to speech impediments. The set is worthy of Hollywood or Broadway
and the work by Bob Knuth is now legendary for his excellence and taste.
Jeff Daniels work is a bit shy of the stature of Hamlet, and leans heavily in
the direction of Dumb and Dumberer. If pant winds or methane trumpets
are in your taste of colon humor this baby smells like a ripe Tony. Julius
Caesar like bowel humor as many do today. The theme is hunting
mixed with manhood, drinking, aliens and farting in the exponential area
of reason. You have either been warned or invited by those remarks.
I do (not doodoo) applaud Circle theatre for going out on the limb from
time to time and always doing a fine job even if the tree is on fire.

Escanaba is not boring, and its debut, though crude, is another feather
in the cap of live theater. September 27 through October 29, 2006.

Escanaba in Da Moonlight written by Jeff DanielsChicago Premiere! directed
by Rob Chambers previews September 22, 23 and 26, 2006
September 27 through October 29, 2006

Circle Theatre is proud to present the Chicago Premiere of Jeff Daniel's hilariously twisted comedy about five Yoopers - residents of Michigan's Upper Peninsula - and their escapades at a ramshackle deer camp on the eve of the Opening Day of the 1989 hunting season. The men have trekked to their little "home away from home" north of Escanaba - the heart and soul of the U.P. -
to drink, cause a little bit of trouble, and bag bucks. But in the words of patriarch Albert, "Dat year camp was as tense as a moose's butt durin' fly season."Rob Chambers makes his Circle debut with Escanaba in da Moonlight. His directing credits include work at Greenwich Street Theatre New York, City Lit, Bailiwick, The Ivanhoe, Live Bait, Airscape Productions, Public Trust, Society Hill Playhouse Philadelphia, Donny's Skybox, Barat College, The Theatre School at DePaul University, and Silk Road Theatre Project. He is President of The Second City Training Centers & Education Programs, overseeing programs in Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles, New York, Las Vegas and Detroit.