In 2011, Strange Tree Group presented a world-premiere play by Emily Schwartz, THE THREE FACES OF DOCTOR CRIPPEN, at the Steppenwolf Garage Rep.
The production was a runaway success, selling out almost every performance and garnering critical raves. The script won that year's Jeff Award for Best New Work; director Jimmy McDermott won the Jeff for Best Director of a Play; and the performers were nominated for Best Ensemble.
Now we're bringing the show back. Jimmy and all the lead performers are returning. We're adding live music. We're adding more gore. And the whole thing is going to New York for a whirlwind five performances at the New York Fringe Festival.
THE THREE FACES OF DOCTOR CRIPPEN resurrects one of the strangest criminal investigations the world has ever known: the calamitously comedic tale of Dr. H. H. Crippen, England's most notoriously inept cellar murderer.
Chased across the sea by destiny and Marconi's wireless telegraph, this factual (and fanciful) turn of the century tragedy explores the bizarre story of this homicidal homeopath by having three different actors (Scott Cupper, Matt Holzfeind, & Stuart Ritter) portray the part of our dear, diabolical Doctor. The Strange Tree Group returns to its grand guignol roots with this marvelously macabre tale about love, death, daring escapes and a bathtub full of body parts.
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