Nick Bowling ~ + Director

Cast

Janet Ulrich Brooks * + Anya Botvinnik)

David Parkes * + John Honeyman

Production Team

Brian Sidney Bembridge # ^ Lighting and Scenic Designer

Andrew Hansen ^ Composer and Sound Designer

Mike Tutaj # ^ Projections Designer

Maren Robinson + Dramaturg

Josephine Kearns * ^ Production Manager
Jacqueline Firkins # Costume Designer
Tanera Marshall Dialect Coach
Cheney Tardio Stage Manager
Katie Utterback Production Assistant
Caleb Charles McAndrew Technical Director

Reviews

Chicago Tribune

August 23, 2011

Classy and stimulating … Actress Janet Ulrich Brooks, one of the most formidable weapons in the TimeLine arsenal, shares the stage with David Parkes … These two actors are both honest, skillful players, and their dance of negotiation is certainly entertaining. Brooks, in particular, finds all kinds of shading, and there is not a false or artificial note in Parkes’ performance.

—Chris Jones

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Daily Herald

August 26, 2011

TimeLine’s production has two very compelling reasons to recommend it. Brooks and Parkes — both of whom have appeared lately in supporting roles — deliver credible, expertly nuanced performances. … TimeLine’s “Walk” serves as a fine showcase for the talents of two of its most accomplished ensemble members.

—Barbara Vitello

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Newcity

Recommended … it’s not so much the actual details of the negotiations that matter as much as the desire for two human parties to connect and see a common ground. This philosophical dance is handled delicately and pointedly by TimeLine’s production …

—Neal Ryan Shaw

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Chicago Reader

August 25, 2011

It’s a period piece. But director Nick Bowling has done a lot of ingenious things to keep the dust off, the most ingenious of them being to reimagine Botvinnik (originally a male character) as a woman and then to get Janet Ulrich Brooks to play her. … [she] is just plain brilliant. … [The play] still stands up as a portrait of two people trying to negotiate meaning under circumstances where it’s in awfully short supply and getting scarcer by the minute.

—Tony Adler

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TimeOut Chicago

August 23, 2011

… with Blessing’s blessing, [Nick] Bowling’s production casts the Soviet negotiator as a woman; given Brooks’s masterful performance, it’s hard to imagine it any other way. … Both performances are skillful and nuanced …

—Kris Vire

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Chicago Critic

August 24, 2011

This smartly written and deftly performed work is filled with humorous dialogue and deeply psychological character traits that engrosses us from the start by the intelligent and nuanced performances by the two top talents.

—Tom Williams

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