"Goodnight, Absalom!" visits CHICAGO
Schedule
Sun Sep 26 2021 at 07:30 pm
Location
3234 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60624-2030, United States | Chicago, IL
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It's "GOODNIGHT, ABSALOM!", the latest stage production from the Fox & Beggar Theater! This surreal dark comedy fuses STREET THEATER, PUPPETRY, and CONTEMPORARY DANCE into a whimsical critique of American capitalism, performed out of our hand-painted pop-up solar-powered double-decker Vaudeville stage!* * * * * * * *
Come catch a FREE performance on Sunday evening at The Vaudeville Urban Farm. The event will be held in the open air, performed on a homemade double-decker mobile theater. Bring a lawn chair and a friend!
Show starts at 7:30 and will run approximately 75 minutes with a short audience Q+A afterwards.
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Here’s the set-up:
In the fictional town of Absalom, a larger-than-life chess match is played between two sinister railroad barons. Their strange game moves through a series of vignettes -- the Dance of the Pawns, the Dance of the Knights, the Dance of the Bishops, etc. -- in which the unfortunate chess pieces find themselves being made to do battle inside a prison they do not fully understand. As the game progresses, the chess pieces begin to become cognizant of their bleak situation … and attempt to lead a rebellion against the game itself.
"Goodnight, Absalom!" is a surreal comedy about a plutocracy that has gamified modern life, obsessed with winning more and more wealth until the world’s resources are gone. The show fuses the Spaghetti Western genre with a barrage of Faulkner references, taking a look at a frighteningly polarized nation and questioning who might gain from keeping it divided, distracted, and disenfranchised.
A workshop production of Absalom was created as a two-week residency-in-quarantine last August at the Lookout Arts Quarry in Bellingham, WA.
Find the full tour schedule here: https://www.facebook.com/FoxandBeggar/events/
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Where is it happening?
3234 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60624-2030, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays: