Creative props week in the show TimeOut Chicago lists as one of its “Most Popular Theater Shows”

Posted by Molly on September 23, 2013

That's Weird Grandma TWG Weekly Update

We invite you to watch for two clever props designs in this week’s “Grandma”, as we add two stories from two different years at Dewey Academy:

CAN I LOOK AT YOU by Ashaureah R
A Man was looking at tv.  A Big Box could talk he side don’t look at me I’m green, red, blue, yellow.  I will pay you 1,000 Dollars to not look at me. Now we can play together we will have fun playing can we keep the peace and eat pizza.  The End

and

THE DAY I WAS CATCH LIGHTNING BUGS by Antonio L
Last night I was going to catch lightning bugs.  I got a jar out of the refrigerator and poured out the orange juice, and went out the door. I saw the lightning bugs lighting up and I started catching them. I caught 13 and then I take them in the house for a few minutes in then I came back out and let them out the jar in they start flying away in I went back in the house that is how my day went.  The end.

Company Member and prop designer Brandon Cloyd created the “cube” costume for “CAN I LOOK AT YOU”, which features Company Member Tai Palmgren as the strange and shy Cube.  This story was originally directed by Founding Artistic Director Halena Kays.  Company Manager Maggie Fullilove-Nugent designed the lightning bug effect props for “THE DAY I WAS CATCH LIGHTNING BUGS”, which was the inspiration of Company Member Mary Winn Heider. 

Enjoy these and other stories tonight, and get discounted tickets when you say “Don’t Look At Me!” at the Box Office.