Sonata for Two Clarinets - This unique foursome (2 mimes in tune to 2 musicians) leaps with an imaginative, visual slant to interpret classical music and mime for the new century. The "Corporeal Instruments," T. Daniel and Laurie Willets, so cleverly articulate the nuances of the "Sound Instruments," provided by classical clarinetists John Brue Yeh and Teresa Reilly.
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Shadows of A Mind - With the creative efforts of French experimental photographer Etienne Bertrand Weill, T Daniel has created a unique theatrical movement play. Weill's strikingly beautiful non-figurative slide-images of light and T. Daniel's exquisite movements are used to explore the imagination.

The movement imagery of this collaboration has never been seen before in the field of modern mime and is the first time that an American artist has used Mr. Weill's photographic technique and the first time his work has been presented in this unique style and format.


An Evening at Le Boeuf sur le Toit - The setting is a bar somewhere in the United States, in Chicago perhaps, during Prohibition. The Nothing Doing Bar, as it was so named, is a slice of life --- a look at the characters that patronize the bar. This avant-garde work was first presented in ninteen twenty to Darius Milhauds composition of the same name. The performance is presented with exclusive autorization from the rights holders of Darius Milhauds work and Les Editions Max Eschig.


Pas Bouger by Labyrinthes Theatre - Character A continuously following a straight line runs runs into Character B. The first one is all movement, the second one static. Each in his own manner is waiting for something, a sign. In order to change, to become. Straight Ahead or Not Move --two points on a line that meet and exchange bits of lives, each in his native tongue. They are two opposite and complimentary sides of the same difficult question: how can we live.


11 Septembre 2001 - Skillfully examines the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and their effect on the survivors, the nation, and the world by carefully splicing actual sound bytes with choral dialogue to create a uniquely modern tragedy. Born In Paris in 1927, Michel Vinaver is one of France's most prolific playwrights, whose work has been staged by some of France's most acclaimed directors. His work creates a new theatrical language by arranging words taken from everyday conversations in new ways.


The Last Morning - In José Pliya's remarkable new play, we watch a mother-daughter relationship self-destruct against the backdrop of a nameless ethnic war with countless casualties.It is a timely, provocative, poetic work about both the power and failure of humanity. Jose Pliya was born in 1966 in Benin. An actor, director and instructor, he is the author of ten plays and the recipient of several grants and awards including the CDNL grant for a writing residency.


"With the opening this week of Wing & Groove Theatre's exceedingly sharp and skillful production of Matei Visniec's tragicomic "How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients," the citywide Playing French Festival -- a massive two-month-long project designed to showcase the work of contemporary French playwrights -- got under way" - Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun Times