TOO MUCH LIGHT MAKES THE BABY GO BLIND

(30 PLAYS in 60 Minutes) by GREG ALLEN

MAY 3 - 25, 2024

WRITTEN by Greg Allen
DIRECTED by Epic Jones

The longest-running show in Chicago history, Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind is an ensemble experiment in presenting "30 Plays in 60 Minutes."

Each two-minute play is performed in random order with an interactive audience. An onstage 60-minute timer keeps everyone honest.

This cult favorite is a wild ride of comic, tragic, political, personal, and abstract plays presented in a one of a kind show that will leave you forever changed and shouting “GO!”

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

GREG ALLEN

Greg Allen is the Founding Director of The Neo-Futurists and creator of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes), which has been running 50 weeks a year in Chicago since 1988 and in New York since 2004. He is also author of such plays as The Last Two Minutes of the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen, The Strange and Terrible True Tale of Pinocchio (the Wooden Boy) As Told By Frankenstein's Monster (the Wretched Creature), Sleeping with the Prince of Darkness: The Imagined Pillow-Talk of FBI Agent John O'Neill, A Child's History of Bombing, H2O, and K., his award-winning adaptation of Kafka's The Trial. His collaboration The Complete Lost Works of Samuel Beckett As Found In An Envelope (partially burned) In A Dustbin In Paris Labeled "Never to be performed. Never. EVER! Or I'll Sue! I'LL SUE FROM THE GRAVE!!!" has had 12 sold-out award-winning international productions, and his legendary production of all 9 acts and 7 hours of Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude inspired hecklers and immediate standing ovations at the Goodman Theatre's 2009 O'Neill Festival. Mr. Allen teaches at the University of Chicago, DePaul University, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Center, The Neo-Futurarium in Chicago, and in residencies all over the world.

SHOW TIMES

FRI May 3 - 8pm - Opening Night
SAT May 4 - 8pm

FRI May 10 - 8pm
SAT May 11 - 8pm

FRI May 17 - 8pm
SAT May 18 - 8pm

MON May 20 - 8pm - Industry Night!

FRI May 24 - 8pm
SAT May 24 - 8pm

Running Time: 75 Minutes

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CONTENT INFO

TOO MUCH LIGHT MAKES THE BABY GO BLIND contains profanity, adult humor, and audience interaction.

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CAST

Adrian Diaz
Carolyn Cadigan
Epic Jones
Erica Terry
Eugene Cichock
Kira Dolan
Ky Rankin
Lenae Weichel
Noah Hill
Sarah Renicker
Stella Adams
Suzanne Wiegert

COVID SAFETY

If you aren’t feeling well or are experiencing symptoms, please stay home.

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Produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. (www.playscripts.com)