Season Five
When we started mapping out our company trajectory nearly eight years ago, the notion of announcing our fifth season seemed like a faraway and fantastical feat. Especially in the chaos of the past three years, this milestone felt more like a wish than a goal. Now that we’ve arrived, the surrealness holds hands with gratitude to our supporters and a renewed drive to move toward the next threshold.
While we are savoring the sense of accomplishment, we are treating this as much as an opportunity as we are a milestone. To reach a milestone is to look to the next step. Catch your breath, take in the view, and face the next scalable ridge.
As we continue to carve a space within the Chicago theatre community, grow our network of artists and collaborators, and fulfill our mission to inspire both the wide-eyed and world-weary through storytelling, we embrace our fifth season as an opportunity to draw the circle wider. We stand not on a peak, but with our feet planted on the next rung of a ladder connecting this realm to the next.
Join us this season as we follow our characters through distortions of reality, across imaginary state lines, and to other worlds hidden in backyards. Our fifth season explores the tether between childhood and adulthood through its storytelling, style, themes, and our commitment to exploring the in-between.
Turn off your nightlights and embrace the art of pretend with us.
Sincerely,
The Last Living Gun
By Ryan Stevens
September 29 - October 14, 2023
7:30pm Thurs-Sat | 3pm Sun
Imagine a world without guns. We’ll give you a moment.
If your imagination needs a hand, picture this: it’s an age where all guns and even metal are a relic of the past, a murmured bit of lore that instills both fixation and fear. When a rumor about the last existing gun in the world makes its way to a guarded courier, she sets out on an assignment to hunt it down. Accompanied by a plucky companion and confrontations of chaotic characters and trials along the way, she will face her own demon in the inevitable path of destruction...
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Beyond the Garden Gate
By Mallory Swisher
April 12-27, 2024
7:30pm Thurs-Sat | 3pm Sun
“The liminal spaces are where all magic whispers and warps.”
Two sisters come of age listening to the simultaneously comforting and unsettling fairytales their grandmother tells them. Now adults, the sisters are living through Grandma’s stories once again–this time in a very unexpected and real way.
When Maeve moves in with their grandmother, ostensibly to care for her ailing health, her younger sister Kat learns that Maeve has become entrenched in solving the mystery at the heart of the stories they always took for fantasy...
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Footholds Vol. 5
By the Community
June 7-15, 2024
7:30pm Thurs-Sat | 3pm Sun
In its fifth installment, Footholds continues the collaborative journey between The Impostors Theatre Co. and local artists.
Footholds is an anthology series written by playwrights from across the Chicagoland community. Ensemble members conceived the idea in reaction to one of the most frustrating and intimidating villains an artist can face: a blank page. A blank canvas allows for infinite possibilities, but this can sometimes act as a hindrance. With no definitive starting point, it can be difficult to realize a final product... Learn More
Footholds is an anthology series written by playwrights from across the Chicagoland community. Ensemble members conceived the idea in reaction to one of the most frustrating and intimidating villains an artist can face: a blank page. A blank canvas allows for infinite possibilities, but this can sometimes act as a hindrance. With no definitive starting point, it can be difficult to realize a final product... Learn More
