White text on a textured purple background announces "A Short Leap Reading Series Co-Produced by The Understudy EXCEPTION TO THE RULE by Dave Harris."

A Short Leap Theatre Company

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Community Ticket

LXCL:Admission + directly supports artist compensation, rights, licensing, and community partnership.All sales are final.

General Admission

LXCL:Admission + Complimentary Short Leap tote bag &amp; sticker + The Understudy sticker + additional support for artist compensation and community partnership.All sales are final.

Supporter Ticket

A Short Leap Theatre Company and The Understudy Coffee and Books invites you to a staged reading of Exception to the Rule&nbsp;by Dave Harris. This staged reading series serves as a fundraiser supporting A Short Leap Theatre Company and its ongoing work in the Chicago performing arts community. Exception to the Rule follows five Black high school students that are stuck in detention on the Friday before a long weekend. Business is as usual until Erika, the college-bound star of the worst high school in the city, shows up to her very first detention. As the play progresses, we learn why each of them has been sentenced to seemingly never-ending detention. Exception to the Rule attacks the issue of surviving in an institution that was not built for you. Maybe you smoke some weed in detention. Maybe you find love in detention. Maybe you wait for something to change in detention. But no matter how we survive, maybe we&#39;re all stuck here together. Cast:&nbsp;Erika:&nbsp;Carmia Imani*Dayrin:&nbsp;Jabari KhaliqMikayla:&nbsp;Marlene SlaughterTommy:&nbsp;Devion RossDasani:&nbsp;Jada JacksonAbdul:&nbsp;Jimmie Comer IIIIntercom/Stage Directions:&nbsp;Vanessa Copeland* Directed by Lo WilliamsProduced by Carmia Imani* *A Short Leap Ensemble Member Content Advisory:  Profanity, Subjects of generational trauma, PTSD, simulated panic attack and descriptions of past mental health struggles, mentions of slavery, gun violence/gang activity, detention to prison pipeline, and cannabis.  &nbsp;

A Short Leap Theatre Company and The Understudy Coffee and Books invites you to a staged reading of Exception to the Rule by Dave Harris. This staged reading series serves as a fundraiser supporting A Short Leap Theatre Company and its ongoing work in the Chicago performing arts community. Exception to the Rule follows five Black high school students that are stuck in detention on the Friday before a long weekend. Business is as usual until Erika, the college-bound star of the worst high school in the city, shows up to her very first detention. As the play progresses, we learn why each of them has been sentenced to seemingly never-ending detention. Exception to the Rule attacks the issue of surviving in an institution that was not built for you. Maybe you smoke some weed in detention. Maybe you find love in detention. Maybe you wait for something to change in detention. But no matter how we survive, maybe we're all stuck here together. Cast: Erika: Carmia Imani*Dayrin: Jabari KhaliqMikayla: Marlene SlaughterTommy: Devion RossDasani: Jada JacksonAbdul: Jimmie Comer IIIIntercom/Stage Directions: Vanessa Copeland* Directed by Lo WilliamsProduced by Carmia Imani* *A Short Leap Ensemble Member Content Advisory:  Profanity, Subjects of generational trauma, PTSD, simulated panic attack and descriptions of past mental health struggles, mentions of slavery, gun violence/gang activity, detention to prison pipeline, and cannabis.

A Short Leap Theatre Company

Exception to the Rule - Staged Reading

5531 N Clark St

Community Ticket

$15

General Admission

$25

Supporter Ticket

$35

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