Adapted by David Auburn from Saul Bellow’s novel Directed by Charles Newell Assistant Directed by Kristen Johnson

World Premier produced by Court Theatre

“This dramatization of “Augie March,” a novel rooted right here in this town but that ranges across the world with a style that variously recalls Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, Jonathan Swift and Philip Roth, is a remarkable achievement — weirdly long in coming, too, given how frequently Chicago theaters have taken on the city’s other great narrative storytellers…It will hold your attention for all three of its acts, even though the work is performed with very little obvious scenery and with a small, diverse, bare-footed ensemble cast essaying a bevy of roles.” -Chicago Tribune

“Georgie, his mostly mute “idiot brother,” is brought to life through abstract movement developed by the choreographer Erin Kilmurray and touchingly performed by Travis Turner. Sequences in which Augie tries to train an eagle to hunt iguana are thrillingly staged as shadow plays by Manual Cinema, creators of a recent “Frankenstein” here.” - New York Times

A review of The Adventures of Augie March in the Wall Street Journal.

From a New York Times article detailing the process of Augie March: “The workshop, which taught actors the basics of Bausch’s physicalized way of working with poetic text, was part of his project ‘to make the audience feel what it is like to read Bellow.’”