Created and Performed by Claire Saxe
Steppenwolf LookOut Series
We Missed the Train and Had to Wait playfully re-envisions Anton Chekhov’s 1904 play The Cherry Orchard in a palette of clown, mime and found-object puppets. An exploration of property, progress and the places we call our own, We Missed the Train invites audiences to join in the party - before it’s too late.
Object Fabrication by Jacky Kelsey
Friday, August 18, 2023 - 8PM
Saturday, August 19, 2023 - 8PM
Sunday, August 20, 2023 - 7PM
LOCATION: STEPPENWOLF THEATRE - 1650 N. Halsted St. Chicago, IL 60614
ABOUT CLAIRE SAXE
Claire Saxe is performer, puppeteer, theater maker and arts educator, driven by work that stretches forms, genres and expectations. As an independent artist and Co-Artistic Director of Rough House Theater Company, her practice leads her between puppetry, physical theater, performance art and the passions of collaborators. Most recently, Claire directed the U.S. production of Théâtre de l’Entrouvert’s Anywhere, a work of artistic transmission between the Entrouvert company (France) and the Chicago International Puppet Festival. Other recent credits include Invitation to a Beheading at the 2023 CIPTF (Co-Creator & Performer) Rough House’s 2021 & 2022 House of the Exquisite Corpse (Lead Artist & Performer), and you wanna go forever (Genesis Ensemble at Steppenwolf LookOut), Rough House’s Harrow House (Playwright & Performer) and others. As an actor Claire has performed on the Steppenwolf mainstage (Anne Frank, 2007 Jeff Nominee, Actress in a Principal Role), and in storefronts, on festival stages and in DIY spaces across the U.S. and U.K. In addition to arts-education with Rough House, Claire teaches puppetry at The Theater School at DePaul and theater at a K-8 Montessori school. Claire holds a BS in Theater and Classical Studies from Skidmore College and an MA in Physical Theater Directing & Actor Training from the University of Exeter, UK.
Artist Links: @theclearclaire//@RoughPuppets//@linesbyjacky