Jeff Award-winning First Folio Theatre in OakBrook closes this weekend after 27 years -- here's how cast and crew have remembered their home
Actors and directors, designers and composers originally came to First Folio Theatre to perform Shakespeare under the stars.
That success included 44 Joseph Jefferson Award nominations and seven wins. More than 100,000 people saw the company's 87 productions, which included more than half Shakespeare's cannon and 16 world premieres. An expanded season meant an expanded repertoire that included classics by Noel Coward, Eugene O'Neill and Oscar Wilde; contemporary plays by Lauren Gunderson; Joseph Zettelmaier, who had three plays premiere at First Folio; and Margaret Raether, whose P.G. Wodehouse adaptations were an audience favorite.
First Folio 'family' Rice said he and Vesely wanted to a create a place where artists felt valued, a theater they could call their"artistic home."And family sticks together."Our last conversation was her asking if I would take that on. That felt like such a privilege, so enormous, so daunting," said Keller, who credits Vesely and Rice for encouraging her to direct."Above all, I just wanted to make her proud.
"In the summer, you drove out in sunshine and arrived in golden light to an outdoor space," he said."That's why the summer was such an idyll. Personal, professional Christian Gray made his First Folio debut in 1998 in"A Midsummer Night's Dream." More roles followed, and Gray joined the ensemble in 2005. But his relationship with Vesely and Rice went beyond professional.
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