Those of you who don’t want to brave the winds and the crowds and the cheap, picked-over tchotchkes that pass for holiday gifts can enjoy a civilized early Christmas present through this weekend. The Goodman Theatre‘s production of Frank’s Home, a one-act play about famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, concludes its run with evening performances today through Saturday (there’s also an afternoon matinee on Saturday). For $35, you get to see Peter Weller— yeah, the guy who played RoboCop— as Wright in the summer of 1923, when the architect forsook Chicago for California. Throughout the play, as Wright tries to reconnect with the children he abandoned, the master of organic architecture awaits the fate of his recently completed Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, which has just been ravaged by the Great Kanto earthquake. Wright’s former mentor, a washed-up Louis Sullivan, also figures into the story.
I would love to see this, but my guess is it does not tell the story of the real Frank Lloyd Wright, the one seldom talked about in history books.
If by “real” Frank Lloyd Wright you mean an egomaniacal a-hole, I’ve heard that’s exactly the story they’re telling. Also, the play takes place in a span of only three days, so it is by no means meant to be his entire life story.
that’s the FLW I was referring to :)… Idea stealin’ SOB
It was a great show and Robocop does a nice job too – he’s not at all robotic in the part. Great show for history buffs like myself!