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By reid tang
Directed by Tina El Gamal
A Chicago Premiere
A catalog of all the possible phone calls that exist. A play that is not about corporations, not about warehouses, and certainly not about billionaires.
From five-time Obie winner Clubbed Thumb’s 2023 Summerworks festival comes reid tang’s experimental dark comedy where chaos, alienation, and machines collide. A genre-bending play that dials into the absurdity of capitalism and doesn’t hang up.
By Will Arbery
Directed by Micah Figueroa*
A Chicago Premiere
Winters keep getting worse in Evanston, Illinois, where salt truck drivers Peter and Basil battle the ice and snow and pass the time with jokes and stories. But what’s with this creeping sense of dread? Is it because their boss Maiworm has noble visions of new green technology that would make their jobs obsolete? Or is there a more terrifying warning calling out from under these roads? At least they have each other, right?
By Omer Abbas Salem*
Directed by Nadya Naumaan
A World Premiere
Trust is tricky. You enter working relationships and it's unprofessional not to offer it. When you feel your trust challenged, you convince yourself that you're the problem. And some people take advantage of that. Fola is an MFA directing grad student stepping into a mid-year review with their advisor. What happens when you record a professional meeting and you don't tell the other? And what do you do when you record something really incriminating? This is a play about the degradation of trust.
By Benjamin Benne
Directed by Micah Figueroa*
A Chicago Premiere
This is a list of things Christian believes in: logic, banana Laffy Taffy, video games, and Daniel. This is a list of things Christian doesn't believe in: caffeine, alcohol, monogamy, and God. Daniel, a Mario Kart wizard and aspiring Lutheran pastor, is falling for Christian. But as these men explore the potential of their new relationship, voices from Christian's past threaten to overpower the connection they share - with one another, and something bigger than themselves.