Season 15, Sundown Shows

Body Stories (a working title)

An ensemble experiment in presenting "30 Plays in 60 Minutes." Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind was originally performed in Chicago in 1988 by the experimental theatre troupe The Neo-Futurists. Part of their enduring mission is to create “immediate, unreproducible events at affordable prices” and that is exactly what we aimed to do as well. As one of the founding Neo Futurists members Greg Allen states it, "all of our plays are 'set' on the stage in front of the audience. All of our 'characters' are ourselves... We do not aim to 'suspend the audience's disbelief' but to create a world where the stage is a continuation of daily life."

Season 15, Sundown Shows

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: 30 plays in 60 minutes

An ensemble experiment in presenting "30 Plays in 60 Minutes." Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind was originally performed in Chicago in 1988 by the experimental theatre troupe The Neo-Futurists. Part of their enduring mission is to create “immediate, unreproducible events at affordable prices” and that is exactly what we aimed to do as well. As one of the founding Neo Futurists members Greg Allen states it, "all of our plays are 'set' on the stage in front of the audience. All of our 'characters' are ourselves... We do not aim to 'suspend the audience's disbelief' but to create a world where the stage is a continuation of daily life."

Season 15, Sundown Shows

How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel

Paula Vogel’s groundbreaking and controversial play How I Learned to Drive tells the story of a young girl who grows up in a complex and sexually abusive relationship with her uncle in 1960’s Maryland. The play follows the young girl, Lil’ Bit, from her adolescence through college years and ends with her as a thirty-something adult. Although Lil’ Bit and her uncle share a mutual understanding and care deeply for one another, the years of manipulation eventually drive them apart, leaving Li’l Bit with unresolved questions that she tries to now process as an adult.

Season 15

Girl in the Machine by Stef Smith

Do you want to live forever? YES or NO Polly and Owen have nailed it. Successful in their careers and wildly in love with each other, they feel ready to take on the world. But when a mysterious new technology, promising a break from the daily grind, creeps into everyone’s phones, their world is turned upside down. As the line between physical and digital rapidly dissipates, Polly and Owen are forced to question whether their definitions of reality and freedom are the same. Girl in the Machine is a disturbing but compassionate vision of our potential digital future, and what it might mean for ‘life’ as we know it.