Saturday, February 15 @ 7PM

Taking Sides

A play written and performed by John Graham Davies

From success in Albania-Tirana, Bosnia-Sarajevo, Canada-Toronto and Vancouver, England- Edinburgh and London

TAKING SIDES - SOLE CHICAGO APPEARANCE!

A play written and performed by JOHN GRAHAM DAVIES
Directed by: MARCUS ROMER

Saturday, February 15, 7:00 pm
LIPA Gallery (Links for International Promotion of the Arts)
160 East Illinois St, Lower Level
Admission: $10
For more information call: 312-329-0812; email: vesna@lipaart.org

"A riveting play, remarkably funny and moving. A tour-de-force. Five stars." - The Scotsman

"In 1993 British actor John Graham Davies set off on a 2000 mile journey across Europe with a raggle-taggle group of ex-soldiers, young unemployed, teachers, bus drivers and a professional burglar. Their aim: to take aid to the multiethnic enclave in Tuzla in Bosnia. Davies knows what he is talking about and in 80 minutes he makes you understand more about the complexities of the situation, the real human confusion, than a dozen newspaper reports." - The Guardian

"This one-man Balkan tour-de force is a humorous and chilling evening of thought provoking theater based on true events. Davies is an immensely skilled performer, convincing in every incarnation. This is a show that demonstrates how theater can flourish at the intersection of the personal and the political." - The Edmonton Journal

In "Taking Sides," a cosmopolitan Bosniak guide, Aziz, introduces the audience to his home town of Tuzla and to a series of fascinating characters including Bajram, a Kosovar miner hiding from the ethnic cleansers; Benny, a Birmingham Jew who decided to go to Bosnia after reading the message on the back of an old family photograph; Dragomir, a Serb oppositionist living in French exile; Rolf, a hardened Dutch soldier whose secrets from Srebrenica is eating him up; and Dean, an unemployed ex-car thief from Yorkshire.

JOHN GRAHAM DAVIES has acted for some of the most prestigious theater and television companies in the UK and was a member of the Canadian National Theater for its inaugural two seasons. He has worked with acclaimed British writers and appeared in many British TV series and dramas. For three years he played DCI Peter Adams in BBC's Hetty Wainthropp Investigates.

MARCUS ROMER is Artistic Director of Pilot Theater Company. His acclaimed production of Lord of the Flies is re-touring in Britain and will transfer off-Broadway. It was nominated for an award at this year's Society of West End Theater Awards.

Admission: $10 Saturday, February 15, 7:00 pm LIPA Gallery (Links for International Promotion of the Arts) 160 East Illinois St, Lower Level For more information call: 312-329-0812; email: vesna@lipaart.org