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Tickets on sale soon for GA and VIP seating!**This event takes place in the social room of the Town of Normal Community Activity Center**
Escape the race and join us for 9, 10-minute plays set in a polling place. It's site-specific theatre that moves!
Elections, voting, polling, it’s all happening around us in 2024. The Polling Place plays offer a unique, thought provoking exploration of civic engagement, democracy and the human experience.
The typical location for voting, a community center, serves as more than the backdrop-it becomes the canvas for exploring the human connections, ethical dilemmas and the resilience of democracy itself.
Featuring:
Honest Jake
By John D. Poling
Directed by Cristen Monson
Synopsis: When it comes to political candidates, Jake is in the category of "well, bless his heart." He's genuine in his desire to serve and he really is honest, but beyond that he's a novice to politics, he's ignorant of the process, and he's a procrastinator. He even has to doublecheck what district he’s running in. As he canvases outside the Polling Place on election day, two random voters give Jake a civics lesson he won't soon forget.
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Malort and the Siblings Wojciechoski
By Brian Cern
Directed by Ethan Rickard
Synopsis: When dealing with a choice between two undesirable options, three siblings and their friend discuss their family’s unorthodox method for choosing the right candidate.
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Vote Here
By Jeff Carter
Directed by Cristen Monson
Synopsis: When John Crabbly, an African American teacher, goes to his new polling station to vote in the presidential election, he finds that nearly everything about the voting process has been oddly compromised. When John’s patience with an increasingly insane situation runs out, he attempts to cast his vote anyway, only to discover that he’s jumped from the frying pan into the fire.
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Autograph
By Kelli Lynn Woodend
Directed by Natasha Warloe
Synopsis:
When Loretta notices a famous actress in line at a polling center, she attempts to rope in a nun to help attract the celebrity's attention.
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Poll Cats
By Cristen Monson
Directed by Natasha Warloe
Synopsis: Amid off handed remarks from a political candidate about the plight of “childless cat ladies,” women in a small community take matters into their own hands. This meeting of like-minded individuals brings joy to the polling place and maybe even beyond.
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A Slice of Democracy
By Izolda Trakhtenberg
Directed by Pamela Morgan
Synopsis:
On Election Day, Madison and her grandma Natalia bring pizza to a local polling station, sparking a discussion about the significance of voting. Madison expresses her disillusionment with the electoral process, but Natalia, a new citizen from the former Soviet Union, shares her appreciation for the right to vote, having never experienced it before.
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Ballot Box Bardo
By Kathleen Kirk
Directed by Pamela Morgan
Synopsis: A voter and a poll worker encounter each other in an eerily desolate polling place. Or do they? Maybe it's the bardo, between death and life. At any rate the future of American democracy is at stake.
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Moving Forward
By Michael P. Adams
Directed By Ethan Rickard
Synopsis: Two people with opposing political viewpoints wait in line to vote on Election Day in 2008.
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Just the Two
By Sophie Goldstein
Directed by Cristen Monson
Synopsis: An elephant and donkey talk politics while they volunteer at a polling station.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
1110 Douglas St, Normal, IL 61761-6410, United States
