The colors of The Gift are a nod to both The University of Iowa and the original cover design of Towards A Poor Theatre, both of which feature yellow & black. The three lines represent love, life, and the ability to overcome obstacles. The open hand logo is a representation of an approach for building a character called “Three Parts of the Body.” The hand represents body (wrist), heart (palm), and mind (fingers). and giftFILM offer, respectively, improvisation performances steeped in the Chicago “long form” tradition of montage, a two year high school training apprenticeship rich in the ensemble approach toward making theatre, a literature department offering readings and workshops, and a film company featuring the talents of the ensemble. For over ten years, The Gift has earned and deepened its reputation as an ensemble dedicated to acting of the highest caliber and a welcome home for new plays.
The ensemble is composed of actors, directors, writers, and improvisers. The actor, in this special process of discipline and self-sacrifice, self-penetration and molding, is not afraid to go beyond all normally acceptable limits…The actor makes a total gift of himself.” So the only source of satisfaction left to him is the audience’s reactions. Nothing survives him but the reviews, which do not usually do him justice anyway, whether he is good or bad. Eric Forsythe, the name of the theatre came from Jerzy Grotowski’s Towards A Poor Theatre: Heavily influenced by a class called “Alternative Approaches To Acting” taught by Dr.
Tickets are currently available by calling the Gift’s box office at 77 or visiting .Ĭonceived while students at The University of Iowa in 1997 by Michael Patrick Thornton and William Nedved, the idea for The Gift was to grow and nurture an ensemble and lay roots in an artistically underserved Chicago neighborhood. The Gift Theatre concludes its 2017 season with the world premiere of Janine Nabers’ time-hopping love story A SWELL IN THE GROUND directed by ensemble member Chika Ike, playing October 13 – Decemat 4802 N.
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