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Collection / Anthology, Dramatic Comedy / 5w, 5m plus ensemble
Greg Allen
Opening in 1988 and still playing today as 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.”
Having opened in 1988 and still playing today as 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 collection of 90 comic, tragic, political, personal and abstract plays gives you the chance to program your own evening of 30 Neo-Futurist plays to reflect the lives and experiences of your own ensemble. Go!
The Neo-Futurists’ Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind premiered in Chicago, Illinois on December 2, 1988, where it has been running ever since.
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An ensemble cast of however many you would like.
Bare stage/simple set. Now.
“Still the most clever, most urgent show in town.” – Chicago Stage Review
“Allen's tongue-in-cheek updating of a futurist entertainment... is unashamedly live and democratic theater.” – Chicago Reader
“Pure artistic expression, a sort of mental and emotional purging for the performers that, quite often, resonates in some way with the audience. Whether this resonance is characterized by laughter or a somber silence depends on the scene.” – Chicago Theatre Beat
20 Years of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind
Neo-Futurists NYC Trailer
Greg Allen is the creator of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes) and Founding Director of all six international theatre companies (Chicago, NYC, Montreal, San Francisco, London and Detroit) dedicated to the practice of his performance aesthetic, wh ...