Steppenwolf Presents HEDDATRON, 2/11-4/24

HEDDATRON
By Elizabeth Meriwether
directed by Jonathan L. Green
February 11, 2011 - April 24, 2011

The 2011 GARAGE REP starts next week as robots invade the Steppenwolf Garage. Seriously, real robots.

It all starts with a book falling from the sky. Suddenly Jane Gordon, a very depressed and very pregnant Michigan housewife, finds herself kidnapped by a clan of renegade sentient robots and whisked away to the jungles of South America where she is forced to perform the title role in a mechanical version of Hedda Gabler. Dark and savagely funny, Heddatron "achieves true, and truly original, theatrical transcendence" (Ben Brantley, NY Times) in a bizarre and strangely familiar world of reality TV and rocket launchers where everyone, metal or otherwise, just wants to feel a little bit human. Sideshow Theatre Company is proud to partner with robotics experts from across Chicago to present a cast of human actors and functioning robots in the Chicago premiere of Elizabeth Meriwether's frighteningly funny Heddatron.

Tickets are only $20. Purchase The GARAGE REP pass for just $45 to see all three shows (including The Strange Tree Group's The Three Faces of Dr. Crippen and UrbanTheater Company's Sonnets for an Old Century).

Buy Tickets Online Or call the Box Office at (312) 335-1650.

 

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