The Fox and Beggar Theater Presents: Goodnight, Absalom!

Sat Sep 25 2021 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

Urban Growers Collective, South Green Bay Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA | Chicago

Marysia Kochac
Publisher/HostMarysia Kochac
The Fox and Beggar Theater Presents: Goodnight, Absalom!

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!

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Come catch a FREE performance on Saturday evening at Schafer Park across from Urban Grower's Collective. Bring a lawnchair 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.


Event Venue

Urban Growers Collective, South Green Bay Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA, United States

Tickets

USD 0.00

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