If you’re going to produce a theatrical production based on interviews with Chicagoans talking about food, Albany Park is as good a place to start as any. Not only is it one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the city—and in the country—it’s also home to the Albany Park Theater Project, an ensemble of teenagers that has a history of producing shows that are honest, funny, and inspirational in the best possible way: after you see them, you want to do something.
Once the students finish the interviewing, they bring the transcripts—which are sometimes hundreds of pages long—back to the theater for what Feiner calls a “theater lab”: “We explore how to transform the material into compelling material onstage.”
