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CHARGES (THE SUPPLICANTS)
Experimental
Runs Feb 26 – Mar 29, 2026
A powerful elegy for the plight of refugees, from ancient times to the present.
Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek’s Charges (The Supplicants) is a cry for the displaced.
Theatre Y transforms the act of seeking a home into a surrealist tightrope walk teetering between gallows humor and tragedy. Originally written to address the global refugee crisis, co-directors Melissa Lorraine and Héctor Álvarez mine Jelinek’s text for truths about a world of closed borders and violent deportations.
3611 W Cermak Rd
Chicago, IL 60623
Chicago, IL 60623
773-908-2248
Theatre Y wants to participate in people’s lives in ways that matter, here and now.
Rather than telling stories about a community,
we seek to participate in our community’s story.
Theatre Y serves to manifest imagined realities,
claiming global citizenship to better understand our shared humanity.
Rather than telling stories about a community,
we seek to participate in our community’s story.
Theatre Y serves to manifest imagined realities,
claiming global citizenship to better understand our shared humanity.