Illegal Drama announces its upcoming production of “Misplaced Son,” marking Illegal Drama’s one year anniversary of bringing all new and original works to the Chicago stage.  This will be Illegal Drama’s 4th production in just under a year.  Illegal Drama is Matt Rieger and Adam Rosenberg, an ex-lawyer and an ex-trader, who united in Spring of 2007 with the mission of producing new work that focuses on criminal behavior, whether literal or figurative.
 
“Misplaced Son” is a peculiar dark comedy of errors that occurs when Sarge, a laconic killer-for-hire, and Jasmine, his nervous and impulsive novitiate, execute one Harry Schotz, a white-collar thief who lives alone.  In order to fulfill their contract, they must find “IT” in Schotz’s house, but an unexpected knock at the door turns out to be Schotz’s abandoned-before-birth son, Warren.  Unfortunate timing becomes dark farce as Sarge coolly assumes the role of Schotz, but as light is shed on the reason for Warren’s visit, unwittingly blunders into the role of the estranged father.  Jasmine, intent on murdering Warren (or anyone else who gets in her way), reluctantly plays the part of the imaginary Mrs. Schotz as the pair of killers buy time in service of a solution.  For Jasmine, the exit is obvious: kill the kid, find “IT”, and get out.  But in order for Sarge to remain true to his strict ethical code, he must negotiatie this accidental relationship, one which blossoms to the point where the lie is as important, if not more so, than the facts.

Center Portion Artists’ Project Space
2850 W. Fullerton Ave.
Chicago, IL 60647

Opens March 13th—April 5th
Shows Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8pm
12$ suggested donation

312-218-2548 or email illegaldrama@gmail.com for reservations.

We had a wonderful run at this year's Rhino, and would like to thank everyone who came out.  Videos will be posted soon!

"This garbage machine.  That's all the world is, one giant waste maker."  -Brickey

So we open Sept. 12th and run through Oct. 24th at the beautiful Athenaeum Theater which we are going to dirty up and make ugly!  All shows at 7pm. For reservations call 312-902-1500.  Trash is a gritty new play written and directed by Matt Rieger exploring a group of landfill workers' basic day-in day-out transferring garbage from one place and putting it in another.  The trash piles constantly shift as one load goes out and another comes in, but it's still the same pile to Brickey.  He might be heard to mutter under his breath, "Sisyphus go roll your rock on up that hill" while stoned Junior might stop savaging in the piles for a moment to ask "Who's Sisyphus?"  It is entirely conceivable that punk-ass wannabe gangsta Jimmy might say "Awww damn Brick, I knew dis one playa who had the Sisyphus!  He was pissin' blood!" and Redbird might put the phone down for a second to holler "Get your goddamn asses back to work!  We got trailers to load!"  The trash pile appears different to these men.  Brickey sees it as insurmountable.  Junior sees it as a playground.  Jimmy sees it as the defining set drop for his grit, his thuginess.  And Redbird sees it as a job, just a job you gotta do, like any other.  When a mysterious handbag containing a gun and wallet full of money appears in the trash, as well as a surprise EPA inspection where they might turn up something they ain't supposed to, Trash explores a world that is dirty and ugly, where secrets are thrown away and forgotten, only to be potentially exposed once again.  As Brickey might say, "The garbage keeps comin' in.  And I gotta keep findin' new places to put it.  And it keeps goin' like that.  We ain't ever gonna see the end of it."

So we were like, hey, everyone else has a website.  So now we got one too.  Right now it kind of looks like some strange e-commerce site but we'll change that eventually because, uhm, fuck e-commerce or whatever.  It seriously looks like there should be pictures of like hand-shaking businessmen and like nurses smiling and like, a jet, or the world or arrows or something.

This site is so under construction that it's not even funny, so if you got here on a search for us, that's great!  But take this page with a grain of salt.  We don't write e-commerce plays.