Arts & Entertainment
Ravenswood Residents Create Latest Factory Theater Production
Chase Wheaton-Werle is the Playwright and Becca Holloway is Director for "The Curious Circumstances of Louis Le Prince," June 6 - July 19.
Ravenswood’s Chase Wheaton-Werle and Becca Holloway are the creators of The Factory Theater’s world premiere of The Curious Circumstances of Louis Le Prince, June 6 - July 19, 1623 W Howard St. Wheaton-Werle is the playwright and Holloway is the director.
On September 16, 1890, inventor Louis Le Prince boarded a train bound for Paris, in preparation for a visit to the United States to demonstrate his single-lens motion picture camera. He never reached his destination. Seven years later, it falls to his widow and son to investigate his disappearance and fight for his legacy in this amazing story based on true events.
Based on the true unsolved mystery of Louis Le Prince, this play follows Lizzie and Adolphe Le Prince as they track the inventor’s last known whereabouts and cross the Atlantic to a New York courtroom for a confrontation with legendary inventor Thomas Edison.
Half Victorian-era mystery, half courtroom drama, The Curious Circumstances of Louis Le Prince explores how we struggle with unresolved tragedies, and how we remember (or don’t remember) the people in our history.
The performance schedule includes Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. with Sunday matinees at 3 p.m. There will be additional Thursday performances July 10 and 17 at 8 p.m. An accessibility performance is Sunday, June 29 at 3 p.m. and an understudy performance is Sunday, July 6 at 3 p.m. The Curious Circumstances of Louis Le Prince has an approximate runtime of one hour and thirty minutes. Tickets are $30 and may be purchased at the door or by visiting TheFactoryTheater.com.
