A FAMILY EMERGENCY: A Staged Reading at Church in the City

Thirty years is a long time for a family to fall apart. Countless disasters, little miracles of love, and a epic political nightmare of unfolding history are all centered on a bedroom in a tiny Main Street house in Morris, Illinois where the McCauley family is slowly disintegrating. A love-struck young real estate agent fills us in on the beautiful, lyrical love that birthed this shoddy dynasty, a love that began in a ’74 Dodge Challenger with Elvis Costello on the radio and would end with blood coughed by a woman surrounded by plastic angels while her daughter lies unconscious covered in Iraqi dust. Love is fulfilled: trust is betrayed. Resentments, hopes, dreams and yearnings are pursued by the ashes of the past, miscarriages and zombie movie marathons the chasers for terrorism and war;  cancer, rage and adultery the blips on a television set to Cubs games and Hurricane Katrina coverage. Welcome to A FAMILY EMERGENCY, a comedy about the worst memories of all the best people.

Starring the brilliant cast of Abby Blankenship, Mary Jo Bolduc, Brian Chambers, Ellen Chambers, Eric Gerard, James Lusk, Kein P. Onickel, and Bridget Schreiber , A FAMILY EMERGENCY is my epic and occasionally hilarious tragedy about what it means to be an American millennial and what it is to love and die in the Midwest, and will be presented in a FREE, ONE NIGHT ONLY staged reading on Tuesday June 16th, 7:30pm, at Church in the City, 1040 W Huron Street #1-W, Chicago, IL 60642.  Invite your friends, yourself, and maybe even your family here on our Facebook event page: we sincerely hope to see you there!