Graduation Days.

This week we end two of our recent Neo-Futurist workshops with open invitations to come see, ABSOLUTELY FREE, the work that's been created over the past two months by our creative and energetic students!

Wednesday, February 24, 8:00 pm

A VERY NEO-FUTURIST ADAPTATION CLASS: WORKS IN PROGRESS

The students of the Neo-Futurist Adaptation class invite you to an open-class showing of the material we've been working on for the past seven weeks! Class instructors Chloe Johnston and Rachel Claff, both Neo-Futurist company members, have led us through seven weeks of exercises, games, improvisations, and performance assignments that have explored what it means to take an existing work of literature, art, music, or found text and turn it into a Neo-Futurist performance piece. Our adaptations-in-progress range from novels by Thornton Wilder and C.S. Lewis to Italian folktales to Greek mythology to a 19th-century tragicomedy to a seminal Bob Dylan album.

The Performers: Jason Adams, Sid Branca-Cook, Matt Hope, Adelaide Lee, Lizzie Lovelady, and James Whittington

Doors open at 7:45 pm. The performance will run about an hour; we encourage you to stick around afterward and chat with the performers and instructors, and maybe have a little something to drink and nosh upon.

AND...

Sunday, February 28, 5:00 pm

INTRO TO TOO MUCH LIGHT: 20 PLAYS IN 40 MINUTES

For the past eight weeks, Neo-Futurist instructors Bilal Dardai and Genevra Gallo-Bayiates have run nine fledgling writer-performers through a TMLMTBGB boot camp, learning how to write and shape numerous short, honest plays. In the end, twenty were chosen, and they're going to be performed once, up against a 40-minute clock, in the order decided by you, the audience!

Check out this menu of of world-premiere play titles:

1. Obsessed Magazine, Volume Loud, Issues Many
2. Atra's Manual
3. 1984. 2010. Whatever.
4. Nothing like a productive day job
5. Sphygmomanometer
6. Absolution
7. The Pillow People
8. Things I've spoken in my sleep (a traveling hymn).
9. Priority Lapse
10. I thought you were cool
11. GAMES
12. The Key
13. Fuck You, Lou Gehrig: A Haiku for my Dad
14. 21st Century Love Story
15. Close Encounters of the Third Kind - the condensed version
16. How I remember the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy
17. Please Please Like Me Oh God Please Like Me - A Guided Meditation on Your Self-Worth with Paige Saliba
18. The Monster At The End of This Play
19. Choose Your Own Adventure
20. How One Of My Clients Pronounces the Word "Lesbian"

The Performers: Atra Asdou, Eric Bjorlin, Erin Briddick, Trevor Dawkins, Kevin Duvall, Gwynn Fulcher, Kelly McGuigan, Paige Saliba, and Jackie Sestak

Doors open at 4:45 pm. The performance will run just under an hour.

Both performances take place at The Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N Ashland, Chicago IL.

And they're FREE. I can't stress that enough. FREE THEATRE! FREE!