Mike Leigh's 1979 play Ecstasy is more about the agony than Cole Theatre's debut production.
by Chloe Riley"Victory of the people" is the rallying cry of Cole Theatre, a new company from Chicago-based actors Boyd Harris and Layne Manzer. So it's a bit ironic that the group's inaugural production is Mike Leigh's Ecstasy, whose downtrodden working-class characters would seem anything but victorious.…[ Read more ]