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Theatre Y's 16 member ensemble has become a unified and sustaining team with the help of Georges Bigot – central to Ariane Mnouchkine's Théâtre du Soleil during the '80s and '90s and one of France's most celebrated actors. Mr. Bigot has formed ensembles in Cambodia, Mali, and France, as well as Tim Robbin's company in LA - The Actor's Gang. He has now also helped us to form and nurture a vibrant, hard working, and multitalented ensemble originally built around Theatre Y's Macbeth at the Chopin Theatre, as part of Chicago’s Shakespeare 400 Festival in 2016.
Theatre Y had long wanted to form an ensemble. We had all but given up hope trying to build an ensemble theater within Chicago’s traditional theater business model, where actors either work for free or at rates a Free Movement theater could not dream of paying. Then in 2015, Georges Bigot’s lifelong experience with ensemble work and his true faith in all there was to gain provided the event and the form. The 16 ensemble members are rehearsed Macbeth collaboratively for one year, casting three-quarters of the way into rehearsal, relaying roles around and around until the course was clear. This collective labor challenges the ego to long chiefly for awe in front of one another; to receive the flattery of being in each other's company.
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