Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble has reimagined tour Full Circle Festival, featuring 30-60min long physical, fringe, and dance theater, in collaboration with Whisper Theatre.
SATURDAY
Well-Balanced Dads is a family-friendly physical comedy about two dads navigating life after their kids have left the nest. Through partner acrobatics, classic rock, and an abundance of audience interaction, Dick and Dale take the audience on a camping adventure complete with a beloved minivan, dance numbers, a cheese stick fight, movie references, and a spooky ghost story. Bring your finger guns and your best dad moves, and brace yourselves for the Well-Balanced Dads!
Every Brilliant Thing is a heartwarming, interactive play that celebrates life’s joys and struggles. Starring Mari Joy, the show invites audiences to laugh, reflect, and participate in a unique theatrical experience.
Chicago MemoryScape is a public art and dance installation that creates a moving memory map throughout the city of Chicago. Lucy Vurusic Riner turns Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods into stages for spontaneous, crowdsourced dance performances, using public art as a backdrop to spark connection with dance and community members. Together they experience, participate and create their own MemoryScape
The Storage Closet is a new play by Emma Jean Eastlund that peels back the curtain on GoGo dancing to reveal a raw, femme-driven story of survival, sisterhood, and reclamation. Set in the storage closet of a nightclub, the play follows a group of women as they navigate the chaos of nightlife, clinging to their power and dreams. Both gritty and poetic, The Storage Closet is a tribute to the women of GoGo—and to all femme artists who continue to make art by any means necessary.
Broken Planet Show is an absurd, interactive cabaret of apocalyptic proportions where clown, music, and chaos collide in a nightly riot of world-saving mischief. Featuring characters like Clown God, Mothman, and Fart Monkey, the show dares audiences to laugh at our flaws, misbehave joyfully, and unite through ridiculousness. It’s a rebellious celebration of imperfection, set to a live-looped cosmic soundtrack.
Sunday
Michele Stine’s Always, Sometimes, Maybe follows a janitor who unexpectedly finds herself onstage. With nothing but her rubbish and a lot of imagination, she tries to find a connection. Using physical comedy, puppetry, dance, and non-verbal storytelling, this is a warm, accessible experience suitable for all ages and backgrounds. A funny, tender journey directed by Sean Garratt into what it means to be alone – and how we find our way back to each other.
"Destination: Wedding" by Scott C Sickles comprises of 13 very short plays set at a destination wedding in Iceland.
Greek mythology meets Steel Magnolias in Arachne, a bold, hilarious solo show about the very first spider. Athena, the Goddess of Justice and Handicrafts, is hosting a launch party for her memoir… until a mysterious force demands she tell the WHOLE truth about her past. If she doesn't, she'll be coughing up webs for all eternity. Athena's story dives into issues like justice, accountability, and the complexities of women's friendships. Britt Anderson uses music, multiple characters and audience interaction to weave this tale about two former best friends.