Caroline (Amia Korman) and Anthony (Jay Westbrook) in Citadel Theatre’s
“I and You” (North Shore Camera Club photo)
Highly recommended
Meet Caroline and Anthony, two teenagers in playwright Lauren Gunderson’s “I and You.” On stage now at Citadel Theatre in North Suburban Lake Forest, the show is way more than about two exceptionally bright teens who seem to have an English lit assignment on Walt Whitman due the next day.
Before you see the show, and you should absolutely go, know that Whitman was a 19th century American poet and essayist who wrote the famed and controversial poetry collection “Leaves of Grass” and favored free verse, realism and transcendentalism.
It is fine to have high expectations of this production. Perfectly fine-tuned by Director Scott Shallenbarger, beautifully interpreted by Korman and Westbrook, it is a well imagined tale by Gunderson, author of Citadel’s recently acclaimed “Silent Sky” production.
Caroline, confined to her room due to acute illness or condition, and Anthony who visits her there to supposedly finish a school project, debate Whitman, sickness, death, life and hope in the show’s 90 minute, three-act time frame.
You truly won’t predict the ending.
DETAILS: “I and You” is at Citadel Theatre, (in a school building) 300 S. Waukegan Rd., Lake Forest, IL now through March 23, 2025. Running Time: 90 Min. no intermission. For more information and tickets call (847) 735-8554.
Jodie Jacobs
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