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Switchboard presented by Neo-Futurist Theater at Steppenwolf Theatre

Switchboard

Steppenwolf Theatre
1650 N. Halsted Chicago

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.

Presented by Neo-Futurist Theater

Thru - Dec 14, 2024

Stage: 1700 Theater

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 312-335-1650

www.steppenwolf.org

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"...Created and performed by Neo-Futurist ensemble member Annie Share in collaboration with Sivan Spector and directed by Anna Gelman, Switchboard uses the 1915 SS Eastland disaster as its spine. The ship rolled over at the dock before embarking on a planned outing to Michigan City, Indiana, killing 844 people, most employees or family members of employees of Western Electric's Hawthorne Works in Cicero."

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