How to Act Around Cops

The Artistic Home
3914 North Clark Chicago

Lauded as "an enigmatic, cool and entirely original play" by nytheater.com, the story begins on a deserted stretch of highway where a traffic cop pulls over two young men, only to find himself swept up in a web of lies that land him on the wrong side of the law. How far will he go to protect himself? Logan Brown and Matthew Benjamin's How to Act Around Cops is a hilarious take on the classic cop caper, with drugs, guns and bodies in car trunks. Weaving dark threads of casual violence with quick-fire dialogue and twisted humor, the play takes a wicked route down the traditional cops-and-robbers path with its intelligent examination of blame, innocence, and all shades of grey in between -- and will appeal to anyone who feels guilty as hell whenever they walk past a policeman.