Bailiwick Directors’ Festival

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Bailiwick Repertory’s annual showcase of generally unknown pro, semipro, and student directors concludes this weekend with “Festival in Review,” featuring encore performances of three productions seen during the fest. Bailiwick Repertory, Bailiwick Arts Center, 1229 W. Belmont, 773-883-1090. Through August 24: Thursday and Saturday, 7:30 PM; Sunday, 2:30 PM. $10 per night.

This dance/theater piece, scripted by Marta Garcia and Nancy Gomez and directed by Garcia, is adapted from Donna Williams’s autobiography about her experiences as an autistic adolescent and from Peter Handke’s dramatization of the story of Kaspar Hauser, who spent his youth imprisoned in a small cell until he escaped at age 16.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23

What Is This Everything?

The Love Talker

Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): What Is This Everything? (theater still).