Anniversary, Week Two!

The holidays have a tendency to assault you with excess -- sensory overload in the form of cheerful music and brightly colored lights and decorations; office break rooms filled with gift baskets and the gift baskets filled with caramels.

Well, we're not against giving a little extra, either. So although this weekend's Too Much Light will still feature but 30 plays in a mere 60 minutes, there will be a super-sized ensemble of 13 Neo-Futurists performing them, running around amid a low-hanging arch and various other hazards.

Lisa, Bilal, Tif, Brenda, Jay, Mary, Jessica, Kurt, Trevor, Kristie, Leah, Megan, and Caitlin bring you this action-packed anniversary menu:

• A Song for the New Guy (Kristie Koehler Vuocolo)
• The experience at Andersonville Shoe Repair went a little something like this. (Kristie Koehler Vuocolo)
• 30 Second Porn Title Beauty Pageant (Jay Torrence)
• Now in 3D (Jay Torrence)
• Some of us would like to quit (Jay Torrence)
• Sex Is Gay (Caitlin Stainken)
• Thoughts on the supposed next chapter (Caitlin Stainken)
• Sad Standup (Trevor Dawkins)
• I'm too excited to sleep (Trevor Dawkins)
• Freaks (Jessica Anne)
• Awry at Applebee's Featuring Kurt Chiang as the Toddler (Lisa Buscani)
• Me Will play the Black Swan, and Me Will win all the Golden Globes and Oscars, and Me Will be directed by that guy with the moustache (me will also be pregnant) (Kurt Chiang)
• Our Relative Experiences of Cemeteries (Kurt Chiang)
• Grown-Ass Women in Tiaras: Where would we be without TLC? (Leah Urzendowski)
• Mrs. Urzendowski Goes to Washington (Leah Urzendowski)
• Once upon a Burlington Coat Factory Dressing Room, 7th Grade, circa 1994 (Leah Urzendowski)
• FAT MICKEY (Megan Mercier)
• "The deadliest tornado to sweep across the country in the last 56 years." (Megan Mercier)
• Mother Fuckin' Goose
• In honor of my birthday, your birthday, and this fuckin' country. (Tif Harrison)
• You treat it like a circus, I'll treat you like a clown. (Tif Harrison)
• Bruises, Blemishes (Bilal Dardai)
• "Heavy-Handed" (Bilal Dardai)
• Late Evening Dry Land Dolphin-Based Book Club (Bilal Dardai)
• Fiction (Brenda Arellano)
• Sandwich, Dance, Banana (Brenda Arellano)
• Say "Bal-a-NEEZ" (Mary Fons)
• Bread Bag Arms (Mary Fons)
• The Take (Mary Fons)

We'll be gone for two weeks after this weekend, but back for New Year's Eve weekend, including our special December 31st performance. In the meantime, please come back to see our acclaimed, runaway hit Burning Bluebeard, which has had to add three more shows due to high demand. Buy your tickets soon, or you'll miss the show that Chicago Stage Review called "a rare and resplendent masterpiece."