Part 1: Sink :: Sink. Sank. Sunk…, Ping Tom Memorial Park, Chinatown, Chicago

Part 1: Sink :: Sink. Sank. Sunk…, Ping Tom Memorial Park, Chinatown, Chicago

Part 1: Sink :: Sink. Sank. Sunk…, Ping Tom Memorial Park, Chinatown, Chicago

Part 2: Sank :: Sink. Sank. Sunk…, Ping Tom Memorial Park, Chinatown, Chicago

Part 2: Sank :: Sink. Sank. Sunk…, Ping Tom Memorial Park, Chinatown, Chicago

Part 2: Sank :: Sink. Sank. Sunk…, Ping Tom Memorial Park, Chinatown, Chicago

Last night Margaret, Sam & I went and saw Spectacle ‘04: Sink. Sank. Sunk…, a Redmoon Theater production, in Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chinatown.

It’s hard to describe the show we saw:
Part 1: Sink. is from 6:00 - 6:45: The characters in the spectacle are scattered throughout the park and you can interact with them.
Part 2: Sank. is from about 6:45 - 7:45: There’s a concrete narrative and the characters all collect in a central playing space.
Part 3: Sunk…: The finale is a progression down to the river where the ending takes place.

Whether you’re a little kid or an intellectual theater aficionado you’ll like this performance, so just go. It’s still playing tonight and tomorrow night. And it’s free - you can’t beat that.

Passing up authentic Asian fare in Chinatown, we went and got some Americanized Pan-Asian at Penny’s in Wicker Park afterwards. It was really good. And cheap. Afterwards, the old favorite, Ginbucks.

Low-quality video clips:
» The band in Part 1 (.mov, 588k)
» Hobo Limerick (.mov, 588k)
» I Love Trains (.mov, 452k) The entire performance stopped and they did this dance almost every time an El or Metra train went by the park.