Without actors, criminals would have to be released from jail to play themselves in Batman movies. Keep the streets safe with today’s Groupon to see Ameriville at Victory Gardens Theater. Seating will be assigned upon redemption. Choose from the following options:
For $18, you get one ticket to a weekday performance (up to a $36.50 value, including all fees). Choose from the following weekday performances:
- Friday, January 27, at 7:30 p.m.
- Tuesday, January 31, at 7:30 p.m.
- Wednesday, February 1, at 7:30 p.m.
- Friday, February 3, at 7:30 p.m.
For $20, you get one ticket to a weekend performance (up to a $41.50 value, including all fees). Choose from the following weekend performances:
- Saturday, January 28, at 4 p.m.
- Saturday, January 28, at 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, January 29, at 3 p.m.
- Saturday, February 4, at 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, February 5, at 3 p.m.
Students are regularly admitted for $15.
Via a vivid collage of hip-hop, poetry, and music, Ameriville explores issues of race, class, and immigration in America through the cataclysmic lens of Hurricane Katrina. Plucked from New York's Universes, the traveling ensemble treats Chicago to an electrifying 90-minute production that navigates culturally charged waters under the helm of director Chay Yew, Victory Gardens' first new artistic director in 34 years. The show has been roaming the country and culturally deprived space stations since 2009, fueled by a mix of "intimate and beautifully performed portraiture" and "tart, funny writing," according to the New York Times' Charles Isherwood. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Victory Gardens' Biograph Theater commands attention with its stunning antique marquee and history as the location where John Dillinger once juggled four fully loaded Tommy guns.
Though Victory Gardens offers discounted tickets to seniors and students, this Groupon is still the best deal for most customers.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Advertising Soup
In this economy, soup isn’t going to sell itself. Only the perfect commercial is going to get those cans flying off the shelves. But what are the elements of a good soup ad?
The setting can make someone immediately yearn for a bowl of the hot stuff. Good settings include:
• A wealthy person’s farmhouse glowing warmly in a snowy wooded area (farmhouse should show no signs of actual farming)
• A small but cozy shack standing on a craggy cliff over a violent sea
• A bread factory
The main character is the viewer’s connection to the soup. It should be:
• A loving yet endearingly inept dad. He is in decent shape, not too handsome, and wearing a sweater and/or tucked-in collared shirt.
• A Victorian sailor’s wife. She is pale and beautiful, yet jagged. It has been a hard life.
• A bunch of working-class bread-factory guys who are hungry but tired of all this dry bread.
The story of the ad then whips the potential customers into a soup-eating frenzy by depicting:
• The dad’s son playing in the snow. The dad wants his son to love him but he cannot prepare a meal on his own. He makes the son soup, and the two bond over a game of checkers in front of a fireplace. Mom does not interfere.
• The wife gazes longingly at the sea during a windy, daytime rainstorm. She misses her husband’s warm, hearty arms but finds solace in a thick chowder that possesses those same qualities. Just as she finishes her bowl the husband kicks down the door. He has returned from his voyage and he has brought her many exotic hats.
• The bread-factory guys make some soup and have a crazy party wherein they dip the dry crusty breads into the steaming bowls with much joviality and merrymaking. What a day they’ve had.
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