Robert Koon

Playwright

Chicago, Illinois

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HOMECOMING 1972

announced for

2012-2013 season

CHICAGO DRAMATISTS

In 1972, Frank limped out of the war in Vietnam and back into the world, a world outwardly similar but inwardly very different from the one he left. In his small Midwest hometown, the returned soldier is unable to negotiate the uneasy distance that now separates him from his family and youth. Caught between the realities of war and the absurdities of peace, he stares down the iconic celebration of returning local heroes – the high school homecoming game.

Directed by Kimberly Senior

Performances

May 15-June 23, 2013

"Ohio & The Lake: Navy Pier," by Robert Koon: Baize Buzan and Tim Curtis/Photo: Amanda Clifford

OHIO AND THE LAKE:

NAVY PIER

Published in

THE CHICAGO LANDMARK PROJECT

Theatre Seven of Chicago

A father and daughter share an afternoon, prior to her departure for college. When a family tragedy intrudes, the nature of their relationship is challenged.

"In Robert Koon's 'Navy Pier' — which brought me to tears — a father and a daughter find themselves perched on a bench on that promontory, just as the young woman is about to leave for college. "Why did you bring me to Navy Pier?" says the derision-filled daughter (smartly played by Baize Buzan), setting off a big rolling laugh in the Greenhouse Theatre Center on Saturday night, this being a question that most Chicagoans who find themselves there invariably ask. But it turns out that the dad, played by Tim Curtis, has a plan and a lesson from Navy Pier's past, and Koon's play manages to be as populist as the tourist trap and far deeper."

-- Chicago Tribune

AVAILABLE THROUGH

Theatre Seven

www.theatreseven.org

Chicago Dramatists

www.chicagodramatists.org

and

Amazon.com

Accolades

MENORCA
Named one of the Top 5 New Plays of 2010

by New City Chicago

http://newcitystage.com/2010/12/21/the-top-5-of-everything-2010-stage/