The Chicago Mammals present DEVILS DON'T FORGET

The Mammals Theatre Company presents

DEVILS DON'T FORGET

written and directed by Bob Fisher

“It's like Dario Argento putting flowers on the grave of Raymond Chandler” - Nick Green w/The Reader HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

"effectively creates an unsettling, paranoid atmosphere, heightened by compelling performances full of weirdness" - Zac Thompson w/The Reader

"A nightmare underworld worthy of David Lynch" - Kerry Reid w/Chicago Tribune 3 out of 4 Stars

DEVILS DON'T FORGET – An amnesiac tries desperately to not remember his past, convinced that he was an accessory to some unspeakable evil. But his amnesia provides no refuge when devils he had hoped to forget return to collect their due. Inspired by 50’s hardboiled noir as well as classic Grand Guignol, DEVILS DON'T FORGET is an atmospheric descent into a metropolis populated with Femme Fatales, Punch Drunk Gangsters, and Shadowy Figures seemingly supernatural. It is the story of a man who tries to escape a demonic global conspiracy using self induced amnesia.

To find out more go to the Mammals blog at themammals.blogspot.com

Cast: Dennis Frymire, Sara Gorsky, Don Hall, Gabe Garza, Sarah Koerner, Annie Hogan, Erin Orr, and Justin Warren

Asst Director: Liz Chase
Costume Design: Ann Sonneville
Light Design: Claire Sangster

Performance Dates are as follows
Saturday Jan 14th
Saturday Jan 21st
Saturday Jan 28th
Friday and Saturday Feb 3rd & 4th
Friday and Saturday Feb 10th and 11th
Friday and Saturday Feb 17th and 18th
Friday and Saturday Feb 24th and 25th

All performances are at 10pm – BYOB
Zoo Studios
4001 N. Ravenswood Ste B-1
Chicago, IL 60613

Reservations can be made by calling 866-593-4614 - Suggested Donation - $20.00


The Mammals explore performance works embracing themes of history, mythology, and destiny through the genres of science fiction, horror, and phantasmagoria.

Chicago Reader Highly Recommends - THE DREAM JOURNAL OF DOCTOR JEKYLL

Highly Recommended - Chicago Reader

"The script's seven credited writers come up with some funny and affecting stuff, such as Dr. Jekyll's brotherly relationship with his all-id alter ego, Mr. Hyde, and a series of scenes imagining Jekyll with a girlfriend...Bob Fisher's inventively grotesque staging boasts gripping, ghoulish performances, unsettling live flute and violin music, and John Ross Wilson's fantastically lurid chamber-of-horrors set."

Full Review

Get your reservations now. We have limited seating! Call 866-593-4614!

The Mammals Theatre Company presents
THE DREAM JOURNAL OF DOCTOR JEKYLL

written collaboratively by
Jason Adams, Scott Barsotti, Randall Colburn, Bob Fisher, Reina Hardy,
Warwick Johnson and Jeremy Menekseoglu.

directed by Bob Fisher

Cast: Jason Adams, Scott Barsotti, Anne Marie Boyer, Ashlee Edgemon, Gabe Garza, Vincent Lacey, Erin Myers, Sarah Scanlon, Skyler
Schrempp, Justin Warren. Also, Lindsey Dorcus.

Asst Director: Warwick Johnson
Set Design: John Ross Wilson
Costume and Make Up Design: Heidi Jade Warriner

Now thru April 2nd

All performances are at 10pm – BYOB
Zoo Studio
4001 N. Ravenswood Ave Ste B-1
Chicago, IL 60613

Reservations can be made by calling 866-593-4614

The Mammals explore performance works embracing themes of history, mythology, and destiny through the genres of science fiction,
horror, and phantasmagoria.


(866) 593-4614 * email: themammals@gmail.com

So far...so good! Seven Snakes is Highly Recommended twice!!

From the Chicago Reader, Highly Recommended review -

"full-throttle performances, live electric guitar music in the style of Ennio Morricone's Spaghetti Western soundtracks, and atmospheric visual and sound design mark this inventive, low-budget production as the work of artists with a distinctive, compelling, and decidedly freaky vision." click here to go to the review.

And from the New City, Recommended review -

"One wonders why he cast the eminently enjoyable and obviously male Hall in the strongest female role; drag doesn’t add to the character or story. But Orr brings enough pluck to stare down any testosterone imbalance. Kahler’s pomp spins out into fun menace. Adam Dodds, Vincent Lacey, Shane Michael Murphy and Sean Ewert are deliciously decrepit as the inhabitants of John Ross Wilson’s ghostly VA..." click here to go to the review.

Here's the info you need to see the show!

Remaining Performance Nights are
...
Saturday Oct 2nd
Saturday Oct 9th
Friday Oct 15th
Saturdays Oct 16th
Friday Oct 22nd
Saturday Oct 23rd
Friday Oct 29th
Saturday Oct 30th
Friday November 5th
Saturday November 6th

Cast: Fernando Albiar, Ian Brown, Adam Dodds, Sean Ewert , Roy Gonzalez, Don Hall, Jim Hicks, Warwick Johnson, Matt Kahler, Vincent Lacey, Bert Matias, Shane Michael Murphy, Miguel Nunez, Erin Orr, Riso Straley

Asst Director: Juan Castaneda
Set Designer: John Ross Wilson
Costume & Make Up Design: Heidi Jade Warriner
Music: David Lykins

All performances are at 8pm – BYOB

Zoo Studio
4001 N. Ravenswood Ste B-1
Chicago, IL 60613
Suggested donation $20.00.

Reservations can be made by calling 866-593-4614
The Mammals explore performance works embracing themes of history, mythology, and destiny through the genres of science fiction, horror, and phantasmagoria.

(866) 593-4614 * email: themammals@gmail.com

Chicago Reader Wants Us To Keep It Weird!

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-meatlocker/Event?oid=1632598

It is always a razor edge between the mystery and accessiblity. We are undoubtly often "compelling weird".

Are we weird enough this time? Come See It and let us know what you think!

Call 866-593-4614 for reservations

BREED WITH ME BEFORE CHRISTMAS COMES!

If you tweet, then you should goto Zac Thompson's Tweet

He links to his review of BREED WITH ME for the Chicago Reader! You may have already read it, but if not... we're highly recommended... that's twice from the Reader. Once by Jack Helbig in 2003 and again by Zac Thompson in 2009 for the same script!

Thanks Chicago Reader! BTW we are extending into the new year... but this weekend is your last chance to see BREED WITH ME in 2009. Tickets are already selling for our January performances and seating is limited. If you wait you risk missing this show which has garnered some very high praise for us. We are thankful and proud... and well we just want to share the work with you all!

So call 866-593-4614 and come see us before the holiday break! We'll even do 2 for 1 this weekend only!

CHICAGO READER - Highly Recommended!!!

a stylized, unpredictable, sitting-on-a-powder-keg quality.
The result is weird, unsettling, and deeply compelling, with flashes of humor and insight.

What the Chicago Reader said about Clay Continent

Critic's Choice
Chicago Reader

CLAY CONTINENT, The Mammals Theatre Company, at The Space. The Mammals have been plying their extravagantly minimal trade for three years now, interpreting the classics in gory, surreal productions that range from smart straight-ahead camp to baffling high-art abstraction. Decidedly the latter (but terrific) was last year's Clay Continent, adapter-director Bob Fisher's delirious collaged-text take on Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This remount is polished and perfected, still challenging but more accessible. Though they've sacrificed some of the original's chaotic edge, the Mammals have thus achieved a cool intelligibility crucial to such language-intensive work: the blocking has been streamlined, and the sound design--previously a sometimes overwhelming echolalic tornado--has been cleaned up yet retains its throbbing menace. Actors Alex Honzen, Derek Smart, and Ron Kroll were excellent the first time around but bring more authority and focus here to the collective description of schizophrenia. And though the script's twists were unusually well fitted to the difficult, dungeonlike Space, they now seem inextricable from its tortuous, claustrophobic architecture (with credit due especially to Patrick McCarthy's evocative backdrop of scrawled diagrams and formulas). This Clay Continent may lack the raw fury of last year's edition, but its elegant, poetic dread is still more impressive--a chilling whisper to that production's scream.

- Brian Nemtusak