What's Next For the Mammals?

Well, first we are going to take a little vacation (about a week or two at the most). After that we are coming back hitting the ground running. There are a plethora of projects in the works. We are working on graphic novelizations of the later two parts of our Noir Triptych, THE MEATLOCKER and DEVILS DON'T FORGET.

Also, we are about to begin workshops for a new play in process entitled SEVEN SNAKES.

So check out this site in June! And Thanks again everyone for your support!

Closing Weekend!

This is it! Only 2 shows left! DEVILS DON'T FORGET closes Saturday 23rd! Also, this Saturday there will be a post show party with some beer!

Call 866-593-4614 for tickets!

Anya Clingman as Half of The Father in DEVILS DON'T FORGET

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The art above is concept art for a possible upcoming comic book cross over for DEVILS DON'T FORGET.

There are only two performances left (and just a handful of tickets to those shows, Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd)

This show will sell out, so make sure to get your tickets! Call 866-593-4614!

5 Reasons you should come out to see DEVILS DON'T FORGET

1. Great Word of Mouth - Some of our friends from local scene and blogosphere have said very flattering things about the show.

Darren Callahan's write up
Angry White Guy
Local Tourist Review
Wildclaw!

2. Good Looking Actors running around in their underwear - OK, somebody out there probably thinks this is some sort of exploitation, but hey! They knew we were taken their pictures for a reason!

3. The Local Rags Gave Us Good Ink

Chicago Tribune
Timeout
Chicago Reader

4. Whereas there are lots of fantastic theatre companies in Chicago, nobody else is quite like the Chicago Mammals!

5. The Chicago theatre scene is incredibly diverse. There is something for just about everyone's taste. The foundation of that amazing menagerie of experience is the small storefront theatre scene in this town! Supporting a company like the Mammals not only helps us bring you more work... it helps the entire theatre community. It is amazing all the little ways in which all of us who see and do theatre in this town are connected! A butterfly gives a fifteen dollar donation to see a show in a non-traditional space and tornado of art and excitement is what we all profit!

If you seen the show, or any Mammals show - Thank You!

If you are going out to the theatre this weekend to see any of our fellow Chicago small storefront companies - Thank You!

If you help us spread the word about our show - Thank You!

BTW (Here it comes) 2 performances left for our latest DEVILS DON'T FORGET!

Call 866-593-4614 for reservations! or email us at themammals@gmail.com

From the Photoshoot for Possible DEVILS DON'T FORGET comic book!

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Adam Dodds as half of the Father in DEVILS DONT FORGET.

There are only 2 chances left to see this show!

Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd

Call 866-593-4614 for tickets!

Monday Night Industry Night Still Have a few tickets left!

But we are nearly sold out. Call us if you want to come out tonight and see the show!
866-593-4614!

After tonight, Only 2 more performances... the show must close of May 23rd!

Running out of seats!!! Hurry up and get your tickets for closing weekend!

Tonight Friday 15th is sold out! Tomorrow Sat 16th still got 2 tkts left! Monday 18th only 2tkts left! DEVILS DONT FORGET! 866-593-4614!

Get your tickets for closing weekend! Two performances left! The show must close on May 23rd!

Not sure if you can make it out? Check out our review roundup! We hope it will change your mind!

See you soon!

Thanks to Wildclaw for the kind words!

Our friends at Wildclaw have gone above and beyond in their support of the Chicago Mammals' efforts. They have posted a very flattering review of DEVILS DON'T FORGET. Of course we want you to get to our show, but if you are a fan of genre work, then you really must see their current show, the Revenants. It is a zombie narrative with a few twists that you just don't see within the subgenre! I don't want to ruin too much so here's my elevator pitch...

Just because I want to eat your brains...doesn't make it ok for you to try to shtupt (sp?) my wife.

OK, that is a little tongue in cheek. My point is that the show is very good! Go see them! Go support them!

BTW Friday May 15th is sold out. As I type this post, we have only a handful of tickets left for Saturday 16th, and the house is half sold for our Monday 18th actor/industry night!

Get your tickets asap for DEVILS DON'T FORGET

866-593-4614!

Concept Art for DEVILS DON'T FORGET graphic novel

Susan Myburgh as Girl One. Once the show closes we still want to share our story. So, we're going to make a graphic novelization with the cast from the current run!

Even though we are excited to bring you the story in as a graphic novel, it is first and foremost a play to be seen!

The show must close on May 23rd! Tickets to the remaining performances are going fast. Friday the 15th is already sold out. Saturday almost sold too!

Call 866-593-4614 to make reservations and see DEVILS DON'T FORGET!

Candid Shot from DEVILS DONT FORGET

One, Two, Three, One, Two, Three... look were dancing! Prepping for the musical version of DEVILS DON'T FORGET (just kidding). Actually we're planning on making a graphic novel version of the performance (for real).

BTW there are only 4 more performances left. The show must close May 23rd. Get your tickets by calling 866-593-4614.

Concept Art for DEVILS DON'T FORGET comic book

There are 2 weeks left to see DEVILS DON'T FORGET

Call 866-593-4614 for tickets!

ADDED SHOW! INDUSTRY NIGHT!

The Chicago Mammals are adding an Industry Night performance to the run of DEVILS DONT FORGET! Monday May 18th at 8pm. Seating is limited, so make sure to call ahead and make your reservation!

Our show has been selling out! We are so thankful to all of you, and we hope our industry night is filled with all the friends and folks out there who are currently onstage during the weekends!

866-593-4614

Thank You Chicago! Review Roundup!

The cast and crew of DEVILS DONT FORGET want to thank everyone for their well wishes regarding the positive response we've garnered thus far from the blogosphere and the press.

Below are links to the reviews thus far online (please let me know if I missed any)

Tribune
Timeout
Reader
Angry White Guy
Darren Callahan
Local Tourist

There are only six more shows left including tonight. We still have tickets for Friday the 8th. Saturday has only 2 seats left.

Remaining performances

May 8,9
May 15,16
May 22,23

All performances are at 8pm – BYOB

RBP – Rorschach Space
4001 N. Ravenswood Ste 405
Chicago, IL 60613

Performances From May 1st thru May 16th suggested donations $15.00. May 22nd and May 23 will be closing weekend fundraisers. Tickets for May 22nd and May 23rd are $15.00 (post show party and drinks included)

Reservations can be made by calling 866-593-4614 For more info check out chicagomammals.com, themammals.blogspot.com or just type Chicago Mammals into your facebook!!!

Hey Look at this! The Chicago Trib digs DEVILS DONT FORGET!!!

So the trib review came out! You can check it at the link below!

"one seriously creepy but mesmerizing little corner of hell."

Remaining performances

May 8,9
May 15,16
May 22,23

All performances are at 8pm – BYOB

RBP – Rorschach Space
4001 N. Ravenswood Ste 405
Chicago, IL 60613

Performances From May 1st thru May 16th suggested donations $15.00. May 22nd and May 23 will be closing weekend fundraisers. Tickets for May 22nd and May 23rd are $15.00 (post show party and drinks included)

Reservations can be made by calling 866-593-4614 For more info check out chicagomammals.com, themammals.blogspot.com or just type Chicago Mammals into your facebook!!!

Meet the Crew - Brian Seitel - DEVILS DON'T FORGET

Brian moved to Chicago in September 2009 after landing a job as a web developer with a company in the Loop. He graduated from Jacksonville State University (in Alabama, not Florida) twice with a B.A. in Drama and a M.S. Ed in Secondary Education. He taught for two years before deciding he wasn't cut out for it, and decided to focus on a less demanding day-job so that he could spend more energy on theatrical pursuits. He has performed in over 25 plays in Alabama and Georgia, but his true passion is directing.

"I'm honored for the opportunity to work with The Mammals, as well as with such a stellar cast and with the phenomenal director Bob Fisher. I hope to have some future directing projects lined up soon and look forward to extending my theatrical career in Chicago!"

Check out Brian's blog thedirectorsector.com


DEVILS DON'T FORGET!

Meet Adam Dodds and Anya Clingman
Meet Katherine Swan
Meet Gabe Garza

Meet Don Hall
Meet Susan Myburgh
Meet Dennis Frymire

DEVILS DON'T FORGET

Performance Dates are as follows

May 1,2
May 8,9
May 15,16
May 22,23

All performances are at 8pm – BYOB

RBP – Rorschach Space
4001 N. Ravenswood Ste 405
Chicago, IL 60613

Performances From May 1st thru May 16th suggested donations $15.00. May 22nd and May 23 will be closing weekend fundraisers. Tickets for May 22nd and May 23rd are $15.00 (post show party and drinks included)

Reservations can be made by calling 866-593-4614 For more info check out chicagomammals.com, themammals.blogspot.com or just type Chicago Mammals into your facebook!!!

For The Noir Enthusiast

Nice Write Up from The Local Tourist Website

"Fun performances populate this new Noir mystery playing at the RPB Rorschach Space just off the Irving Park brown line stop. DEVILS DON’T FORGET is produced by the group The Mammals, who are ambitiously producing a trilogy of Noir inspired works. DEVILS rides a line between natural and supernatural, noir and realism. The story follows Buster, a paranoid amnesiac who simply knows that he’s done something wrong, terribly wrong, and wants nothing more than to keep on forgetting. Populating his world are gangsters, tough bartenders, and femme fatales, all in keeping with the Noir sensibilities of the script."

review by S. Mikayla Brown

Thoughts on DEVILS DONT FORGET from Darren Callahan

From local genre author, Darren Callahan -

Bob Fisher is the hands-down best director for genre in Chicago. More relevant, more resonant, more alive than any seen-it-before family drama, the kind that plays at the bigger theaters every five minutes, DEVILS DON'T FORGET is another well-fought triumph of fringe theatre. Like the work of Dario Argento or Stanley Kubrick, this is a Director's Play (caps intentional.) Fisher's stories are like looking straight into someone's head. It's his vision and it's like no one else's.

...Don Hall, for example, is a character actor of the highest regard. His "Udo" is a sketchy portrait of a dapper killer that gives the audience the same unpredictability as Frank in BLUE VELVET, or The Joker in THE DARK KNIGHT. Susan Myburgh provided the light-dark wish fulfillment of a hot ingénue that brings together believability, sex appeal, and chemistry. And, like conjoined twins, Adam Dodds and Anya Clingman work as one to create a high-concept villain, "The Father."

Usually on a limited budget, and clearly capable of handling more, DEVILS DON’T FORGET has an implied bigger scope and makes great use of music and lighting to never break the spell

Check out Darren's Fiction/music/scripts... at Darrencallahan.com

Coffee Comes From Dark Places

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Timeout Reviews DEVILS DON'T FORGET

Timeout reviews DEVILS DON'T FORGET

Gripped by the desire to create live, lurid trash noir—a not entirely ignoble goal, given that an audience’s close proximity to simulated torture is the opposite of sense-numbing digital entertainment—the Mammals assume that an extended fantasy sequence of physical and psychological mutilation is enough to carry an evening. Surprisingly, they’re not far off. Fisher’s 75-minute ballet of fetishized violence, in which a mad-ish man hallucinates two kinky thugs committing unspeakable acts on him and women he knows, threatens its way into your comfort zone with uncommonly low-tech but high-impact menace.

Reservations 1-866-593-4614. Get your tickets! They are going fast!

Question? Industry Nights?

If we were able to add an industry night for DEVILS DON'T FORGET, which night of the week is the best? Sunday 7pm or 8pm? Monday?

Let us know - email themammals@gmail.com

Guest Review Posted at Don Hall's Website!

Here is the first word on DEVILS DON'T FORGET and the word is good!

"retooling the rules of a tried and true genre for a stark, stripped down tale of urban menace where the terror lies in everything that isn’t said."

"There is plenty of cringe-inducing violence, sure, but what really gets under your skin is the theme of remembering to forget, the act of willingly hiding from the truth even if it means bringing great harm to others. As much as the audience sympathizes with Buster (his send-ups of pulpy noir voiceover are both hilarious and thought provoking), he’s still hiding from his moral obligations for the majority of the play."

This upcoming weekend is already half sold so make your reservations fast!

866-593-4614 or email themammals@gmail.com

Rehearsal Photo - Devils Don't Forget - Only Six Shows Left!

Gabe Garza and Don Hall terrorize Nicolle Van Dyke

6 performances left! Tickets are going very fast!

Call 866-593-4614 for reservations

Meet the Crew - DEVILS DONT FORGET - Jesus Contreras

Jesus Contreras, aka Chuy, wouldn't take no for an answer. Now he is essential to the Chicago Mammals and we love him dearly! DEVILS DONT FORGET couldn't have happened without his dilligence and hard work!


Chuy - "I do theatre because I love the process of putting a show up. I love the people in the theatre community. I love the art of trying to entertain people. I do it, because it makes me happy. I've only been doing it for about two years, but the possibilities, both of artistic and personal development that have opened up in that time, lead me to believe that I can't see myself not doing this."


DEVILS DON'T FORGET!

Meet Adam Dodds and Anya Clingman
Meet Katherine Swan
Meet Gabe Garza

Meet Don Hall
Meet Susan Myburgh
Meet Dennis Frymire

DEVILS DON'T FORGET

Performance Dates are as follows

May 1,2
May 8,9
May 15,16
May 22,23

All performances are at 8pm – BYOB

RBP – Rorschach Space
4001 N. Ravenswood Ste 405
Chicago, IL 60613

Performances From May 1st thru May 16th suggested donations $15.00. May 22nd and May 23 will be closing weekend fundraisers. Tickets for May 22nd and May 23rd are $15.00 (post show party and drinks included)

Reservations can be made by calling 866-593-4614 For more info check out chicagomammals.com, themammals.blogspot.com or just type Chicago Mammals into your facebook!!!

Rehearsal Photos - Don Hall and Dennis Frymire in DEVILS DON'T FORGET

You can't see what Don is doing to Dennis with his right hand, can you? Come to the show and see for yourself!

Due to the intimate space, there is limited seating. Make your reservation now! 1-866-593-4614 or email themammals@gmail.com

Other Rehearsal Photos/Concept Art -

Susan Myburgh as The Ingenue

Don Hall - I'm A Tough Guy (concept art)

I Had It Ripped Out of My Head!

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Rehearsal Photo - Susan Myburgh in DEVILS DON'T FORGET

Va Va Va Voom! Come see Susan Myburgh as the Ingenue in DEVILS DON'T FORGET!

Seating is limited. Tonight, May 1st is opening night!

Reservations are recommended. Call 1-866-593-4614!