Photos by Randall Starr
A SLOW FIRE
By Simon Stephens
Directed by Robin Witt
A U.S. Premiere
Sheltered in a converted storage unit in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, Ashton and Reece sustain themselves by reenacting moments of hope from their past, until forces from the outside world challenge how best to carry hope forward.
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Tickets & Information
Ticket Pricing
General Admission: $30
Reserved Seats: $40
Access Tickets: $10
(Access tickets are our universal discount available to anyone in need of a discount)
Performance Schedule
Previews: January 18, 19 & 23
Press Opening: Friday, January 24
January 27 – March 1
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings at 7:30 pm
Sunday afternoons at 3 pm
Running Time: XX hour, XX minutes with no intermission
Late Seating: Please note that late seating is not possible and that all tickets not claimed by the scheduled performance time may be released to the wait list. For questions about this, please contact our box office.
CAST
Kendra Thulinˆ
Stephanie Mattos
Nate Faustˆ
Pete Mooreˆ
Cindy Markerˆ
Omer Abbas Salemˆ (July 8 - July 24)
August Forman (July 28 - August 13)
Brandon Riveraˆ
Susaan Jamshidi*
Ashlyn Lozan
Debo Balogunˆ
Creative Team
Director – Robin Wittˆ
Stage Manager – Lauren Lassusˆ
Scenic Designer – Sotirios Livaditis
Costume Designer – Alison Sipleˆˆ
Lighting Designers – Brandon Wardellˆ
Sound Designer – Daniel Etti-Williams
Composer & Music Director – Thomas Dixonˆ
Intimacy Choreographer - Micah Figueroa
Dialect Coach - Adam Goldstein
Production Manager – Catherine Allenˆ
Production Electrician – Haley Carr
Technical Director – Evan Sposato
Assistant Director –Lisa Harriman
Casting Director – Lucy Carapetyanˆ
Graphic Designer - Stu Kiesow
ˆ Steep Company Member
ˆˆ Steep Artistic Associate
* Appearing through an Agreement between Steep Theatre and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
In the Press
★★★★
“It is unspeakably wonderful to experience this writer, this director and this essential Chicago theater company all back together again.” -Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune Read the full review
“It’s a brilliantly written and staged panorama.” -Nancy S. Bishop, Third Coast Review Read the full review
Simon Stephens
Simon Stephens is an English playwright whose plays have been widely produced in the UK, Europe, Australia, and the US. Stephens is an Artistic Associate at the Lyric Hammersmith and has been an Associate Playwright of Steep Theatre since 2013. In addition to his Olivier and Tony Award for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Stephens has received the 2001 Pearson Award for Best Play for Port; the 2005 Olivier Award for Best New Play for On the Shore of the Wide World; Theater Heute’s Award for Motortown in 2007, Pornography in 2008 and Wastwater in 2011; and the 2009 Manchester Evening News Award for Best Production for Punk Rock. His play Heisenberg premiered in New York in 2015, opened on Broadway in 2016, and is currently enjoying productions all over the globe. Stephens visited Steep in 2012 and 2016, during which he performed public readings of his works Sea Wall and Song from Faraway, and Steep presented the first ever public reading of his play Blindsided, a new work commissioned by the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, England.
Stephens’ other works include Bluebird, Herons, One Minute, Country Music, Harper Regan, I am the Wind, Three Kingdoms, Morning, a new version of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Carmen Disruption, The Funfair, a new version of Ödön von Horváth’s Kasimir and Karoline, his version of Brecht and Weill’s The Threepenny Opera, Nuclear War, Fatherland, his English language version of Obsession, and his new adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull.