| Show: GHOST IN THE MACHINE Stage Manager: Jon Mills |
Location: The Theatre of Western Springs Director: Rick Snyder |
This was a very last minute decision to see this production and really it was because one of my friend wanted to see his friend (whom I am also familiar with) in it and I was curious enough with what little of the premise I was able to construe to want to see what it was about.
So first the quickie:
Acting: love
Staging: love
Set Design: love
Fairly simple, no? According to The Theatre of Western Springs website…
The story begins with a common situation – that of a missing fifty dollar bill – and spins it into intriguing questions of probability, chance and the complexities of musical composition. A man programs a computer to compose music at random, but in the middle of all the binary coin-tossing the computer gives him much more than he asked for. A concurrent mystery surrounds several people who find themselves suspecting and distrusting each other over the issue of a lost or possibly stolen fifty dollar bill. Originally produced at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, Ghost in the Machine is an entertaining and brisk mix of sex, mystery and metaphysics.
So below is the cast list and beyond the break my thoughts:
| CHARACTER | ACTOR |
| Wes Westlund | Mike Janke |
| Nancy Westlund | Laura Leonardo Ownby |
| Matt Carroll | David M. Rodriguez |
| Kim Goldfarb | Sharon Kushiner |
| Ali Schumann | Noor Hamdi |
| Llewelyn Harper | James Murphy |