Show up early to play four-square with the daredevils themselves before the show!

About the show: Buckle up for this high energy thematic homage to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Following the 2005 original production and pinnacle of jackassery, the men in jumpsuits seize your attention once more to explore themes of madness, revenge and passion through stunts, skulls, live music and striptease. See them test the limits of the human body! Watch them perform amazing feats of courage with complete and total idiocy! Be there as they mash up this classic tragedy with personal revelation, feats of daring-do, and reckless regard for their own safety!

The daredevils are:

Brennan Buhl
Member of Barrel of Monkeys who appeared in the Neo-Futurists' presentation of Strange Interlude through the Goodman Theatre's Eugene O'Neill festival.

John Pierson
A Neo-Futurist of fourteen years who recently created CRISIS (A Musical Game Show).

Jay Torrence
Former Artistic Director of The Neo-Futurists who wrote and co-directed Roustabout: The Great Circus Train Wreck.

Anthony Courser
Who is an ensemble member of Barrel of Monkeys and has appeared with The Neo-Futurists on Picked Up and The Fool (Returns to His Chair); 

Ryan Walters.
Walters is the current Artistic Director of The Neo-Futurists, having been an ensemble member since 2002. He created and co-wrote the original Daredevils, which was remounted at Theatre on the Lake, and also co-created and co-wrote Picked Up (one of the Top Five Best Shows of 2008- "Newcity").

Director, Halena Kays is the co-founder and former artistic director of Barrel of Monkeys where she created and directed the majority of their public performances including their critically acclaimed long-running show: That’s Weird, Grandma, called “the best reason to live in Chicago on a Monday night” by Time Out Chicago. She is a member of the Hypocrites theatre company and a former member of the Big Apple Circus Clown Care unit. Kays co-created and directed the original production of Daredevils and directed Fake Lake for The Neo-Futurists.

Other contributors include: Michael Govier, Assistant Director; Dan Broberg, Set Designer and Scenic Painter; John Szymanski and Kurt Chiang, Co-Sound Designer; Maggie Fullilove-Nugent, Production Manager and Lighting Designer; Heather Riordan, Official Daredevils Physical Trainer; Miranda Anderson, Stage Manager and Trevor Dawkins, Official Daredevils' Intkern, tumbler, stage hand and all around regular guy.