CheekyChicago

@ Next Theatre. Go see more theatre. people! This original show opens tonight and tells the story of a very Cheeky young woman.

South African playwright Craig Higginson’s The Girl in the Yellow Dress is set in contemporary Paris where an Englishwoman named Celia (Carrie Coon) has left her well appointed home in London to start a new life teaching English. When she takes on a French-Congolese student (Austin Talley), a relationship begins to develop that reveals dark truths from Celia’s past. Raising issues that prove the modern world is not as advanced as one may believe. The Girl in the Yellow Dress explores the ways in which class, race, identity and language continue to divide us.