ABOUT THIS SHOW
SWITCHBOARD is a Neo-Futurist puppetry show exploring themes of memory and communication through the lens of the S.S. Eastland disaster. The Eastland was a passenger ship commissioned to transport Western Electric laborers and their families to a company picnic on July 24th, 1915. Without ever leaving the dock, the Eastland mysteriously capsized downtown in the Chicago River, resulting in the deaths of 844 passengers and crew members. SWITCHBOARD is about missed calls and missed connections, losing and forgetting.
A post-show discussion with representatives from the Eastland Disaster Historical Society will take place after the performance on Sunday, December 8.
ABOUT THE NEO-FUTURISTS
The Neo-Futurists are a collective of wildly prolific writer/director/performers who create:
- Theater that is a fusion of sport, poetry and living-newspaper.
- Non-illusory, interactive performance that conveys our experiences and ideas as directly and honestly as possible.
- Immediate, unreproducible events at affordable prices.
- Performance and educational programming that embraces those unreached or unmoved by conventional theater – inspiring them to thought, feeling and action.
For more information visit: https://neofuturists.org/
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Content Advisory
Switchboard contains discussion of suicide, as well as flashing light effects. If you have further questions or concerns about stage effects that might have a bearing on comfort or well-being, or if you would like to know more about the age appropriateness of the performance, please contact the box office at 312-335-1650.
MASK REQUIRED PERFORMANCE
There will be a mask required performance on Thursday, December 12. For this performance wearing a mask throughout the entire duration of the live performance will be required. Please note, however, that the Steppenwolf is a public building and that there will be unmasked people in the building, including in the lobby space immediately outside of the theatre and the bathroom.
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Running Time
Content Advisory
Switchboard contains discussion of suicide, as well as flashing light effects. If you have further questions or concerns about stage effects that might have a bearing on comfort or well-being, or if you would like to know more about the age appropriateness of the performance, please contact the box office at 312-335-1650.
MASK REQUIRED PERFORMANCE
There will be a mask required performance on Thursday, December 12. For this performance wearing a mask throughout the entire duration of the live performance will be required. Please note, however, that the Steppenwolf is a public building and that there will be unmasked people in the building, including in the lobby space immediately outside of the theatre and the bathroom.