clocker bob wrote:A play about Malachi Ritscher opens tonight in Chicago:Kevin Kilroy’s The Silence of Malachi Ritscher explores the compelling true story of Malachi Ritscher, an activist and Renaissance man that self-immolated at the Flame of the Millennium statue on the Dan Ryan feeder ramp on November 3rd of this past year in protest of the war in Iraq and the government that perpetuates it.
The Silence of Malachi Ritscher features: Brent T. Barnes, Cynthia Blakewell, Michael Gonring, Timothy McCook, Pamela White-Raines, and Michael Salinas and is directed by Lewis Lain. The Silence of Malachi Ritscher will open its VERY limited ten-performance run at Theatre Building Chicago at 1225 W. Belmont on March 23rd 2007 and will play Friday and Saturday nights at 11pm through April 21st. Admission is $5.00.
The story of Malachi Ritscher should be told. It is very compelling.
It is somewhat stranger than fiction.