Mercury Rising by Gloria Bond Clunie
When high school basketball star Mercy Angel jumps the backyard fence of a condensed matter physicist and tries to steal his apples, Clunie’s drama tackles privacy in the modern world, the science of a rocky marriage, and the dire consequences that occur.
Sunday, Aug 15 at 3pm
The Playwright
Gloria Bond Clunie is an award-winning playwright, educator and director. She is a founding member of the Playwriting Ensemble at Chicago’s Regional Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theater where her plays NORTH STAR, LIVING GREEN and SHOES premiered and the founding Artistic Director of Evanston’s Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre. Other works by this Northwestern University graduate (B.A. Theater, MFA-Directing) include SWEET WATER TASTE, SMOKE, BLU, QUARK, BUCK NAKED, BANKRUPTCY, MY WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY SUIT, THE LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET and A SHOT#LOVESTORIES INSPIRED BY BLACK LIVES MATTER. Theaters presenting her work include The Goodman, Horizon Theatre Company, Triad Stage, American Blues Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theater, Children’s Theater of Charlotte, Dallas Children’s Theatre and Orlando Shakespeare. This Dramatist Guild Fellow has numerous awards including a Chicago Jeff, Theodore Ward African-American Playwriting Prizes, NEA and Illinois Arts Council Fellowships, a Children’s Theatre Foundation of America Medallion, YWCA YWomen Leadership Award and the Evanston Mayor’s Award for the Arts. Currently, she is excited Sweet Water Taste will open at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre in January and two new shows - her musical adaptation of GIRAFFE'S CAN'T DANCE, commissioned by Bay Area Children's Theatre & The Rose Theater in Omaha, and TALL ENOUGH, the 2019/20 Cunningham Commission at The Theatre School of DePaul University, will both open in April 2021.