🌟 Join us in Supporting The Mill's next production Lucky Breaks! 🌟 At The Mill, we know that change starts with people like you. Every dollar brings us closer to achieving our goal!  How you can support us:<ol><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Donate: Every dollar counts. Contribute now to help us reach our goal.</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Share: Share our campaign with your friends, family, and on social media. Your advocacy can amplify our impact.</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Come See the Show: Come see the show at The Brick October 11-27! <a href="https://www.themilltheatre.org/lucky-breaks-2" style="color:green;text-decoration:inherit;user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit">Get tix and more info</a></li></ol>Thank you for supporting our mission, your support is invaluable. Lucky Breaks is a stage adaptation of selected short stories from Lucky Breaks, written by Yevgenia Belorusets, reimagined by playwright Sara Farrington, directed by Jaclyn Biskup, and devised and performed by our ensemble of five female actors. The stories are often bleakly comic, beginning and ending abruptly, depicting the haunting effects of the 2014 Russian invasion on the lives of civilian women. A woman who runs a flower shop vanishes suddenly and no one asks questions. In another, a woman takes her war-induced rage out on her broken umbrella. In another scene, a woman on a crowded street suddenly decides she can no longer walk and renders herself forever a “living monument.” The absurdist tone and language of each brief story are transformed into a physical score, bending reality to capture the rootless experiences of ordinary women during war and occupation.  Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia BelorusetsTranslated by Eugene OstashevskyAdapted by Jaclyn Biskup & Sara FarringtonDirected by Jaclyn BiskupProduction Stage Manager Sam KersnickScenic Design by Nora Smith MarlowCostume Design by Kristy HallLighting Design by Jackie FoxSound Design by James Worth Bennett Featuring Hanna Datsko, Monica Goff, Jennifer McClinton,and Kara Jackson* *these Actors are appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CHICAGO: The Mill was founded in 2002 by artistic director, Jaclyn Biskup, as Experimental Theatre Chicago. After the company evolved and broadened its scope, the name was changed to represent its new mission: to produce plays progressive in form and content. Biskup's father worked at US Steel, unaffectionately dubbed The Mill, for over 30 years and the name is an homage to him and her family's south side of Chicago working class roots. It's known for its stylish energetic stagings and bold theatricality.

Hello <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " fr-original-style style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);display:inline-block;margin:0px;padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">First name, Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for supporting Lucky Breaks. This production would not be possible without your support! If you would like to contribute further to our cause, contact us to become a volunteer, or spread the word about our mission! Jaclyn Biskup jaclyn.biskup@gmail.com

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🌟 Join us in Supporting The Mill's next production Lucky Breaks! 🌟 At The Mill, we know that change starts with people like you. Every dollar brings us closer to achieving our goal!  How you can support us:<ol><li>Donate: Every dollar counts. Contribute now to help us reach our goal.</li><li>Share: Share our campaign with your friends, family, and on social media. Your advocacy can amplify our impact.</li><li>Come See the Show: Come see the show at The Brick October 11-27! <a href="https://www.themilltheatre.org/lucky-breaks-2">Get tix and more info</a></li></ol>Thank you for supporting our mission, your support is invaluable. Lucky Breaks is a stage adaptation of selected short stories from Lucky Breaks, written by Yevgenia Belorusets, reimagined by playwright Sara Farrington, directed by Jaclyn Biskup, and devised and performed by our ensemble of five female actors. The stories are often bleakly comic, beginning and ending abruptly, depicting the haunting effects of the 2014 Russian invasion on the lives of civilian women. A woman who runs a flower shop vanishes suddenly and no one asks questions. In another, a woman takes her war-induced rage out on her broken umbrella. In another scene, a woman on a crowded street suddenly decides she can no longer walk and renders herself forever a “living monument.” The absurdist tone and language of each brief story are transformed into a physical score, bending reality to capture the rootless experiences of ordinary women during war and occupation.  Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia BelorusetsTranslated by Eugene OstashevskyAdapted by Jaclyn Biskup &amp; Sara FarringtonDirected by Jaclyn BiskupProduction Stage Manager Sam KersnickScenic Design by Nora Smith MarlowCostume Design by Kristy HallLighting Design by Jackie FoxSound Design by James Worth Bennett Featuring Hanna Datsko, Monica Goff, Jennifer McClinton,and Kara Jackson* *these Actors are appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CHICAGO: The Mill was founded in 2002 by artistic director, Jaclyn Biskup, as Experimental Theatre Chicago. After the company evolved and broadened its scope, the name was changed to represent its new mission: to produce plays progressive in form and content. Biskup's father worked at US Steel, unaffectionately dubbed The Mill, for over 30 years and the name is an homage to him and her family's south side of Chicago working class roots. It's known for its stylish energetic stagings and bold theatricality.

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