SWITCHBOARD
November 22 - December 14, 2024
SWITCHBOARD is a Neo-Futurist puppetry show exploring themes of memory and communication through the lens of the S.S. Eastland disaster.
The Eastland was a passenger ship commissioned to transport Western Electric laborers and their families to a company picnic on July 24th, 1915. Without ever leaving the dock, the Eastland mysteriously capsized downtown in the Chicago River, resulting in the deaths of 844 passengers and crew members. SWITCHBOARD is about missed calls and missed connections, losing and forgetting.
This production is in collaboration with Steppenwolf LookOut Series and will take place at the Steppenwolf 1700 Theater (1650 N Halsted Street). Performances run November 22 – December 14, 2024.
Created by Annie Share & Sivan Spector
Directed by Anna Gelman
Original Composition and Design by Spencer Meeks
Tickets: $15 – 25
Content Warnings: strobe, conversations of suicide & grief