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Exit Strategy

“A call to arms... Beautifully dangerous, deeply felt in each shocking discovery...Exit Strategy challenges and inspires, questioning what's worth fighting for and how to lead that fight." 
— DC Metro Theatre Arts

Five Chicago public school teachers, their frazzled vice-principal and a defiant but motivated student take on a failing school system in Ike Holter’s sensational new play, Exit Strategy. Fierce, funny, and charged with anger, the sharply written play follows the motley crew as they band together to save the demolition of their school and regain the optimism and courage they thought they’d lost forever. 

 

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"Exit Strategy Stands and Delivers" - SF Weekly Read the review below by Jeffrey Edalatpour. Have you seen EXIT STRATEGY yet? Only 10 shows left! | Get your tix today! bit.ly/EXITAurora


Vice-principal Ricky (Adam Niemann) is a middle manager par excellence. He’s primarily concerned with keeping his job and maintaining the status quo at a Chicago public high school. Unfortunately for him, the teachers, and their students, the school’s in a serious state of decline. Three years e...
You’ve only got 12 more chances to see the “electric” EXIT STRATEGY! Now playing thru 9/29! | bit.ly/EXITAurora

Check out Michael J. Asberry’s interview with C.S. Soong for KPFA Radio discussing Ike Holter’s writing, his character in “Exit Strategy”, Arnold, and the reality of mass public school closures throughout the country. Listen to the interview below ⬇️ “EXIT STRATEGY” Now playing thru 9/29! Get your tix! bit.ly/EXITAurora


Actor Michael J. Asberry plays a teacher responding to the scheduled closure of his school in “Exit Strategy,” a play by Ike Holter now at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley through September 29. He is…

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@AuroraTheatreCo Check out Michael J. Asberry’s interview with C.S. Soong for @kpfa discussing Ike Holter’s writing, his character in #ExitStrategy, Arnold, and the reality of mass public school closures throughout the country. Listen to the interview below ⬇️ https://bit.ly/2khJyzr