Through live-feed storytelling, audience interaction, and found physical media, one urban explorer weaves an electronic fantasia from stolen artifacts of the Rust Belt, raising questions about memory, ownership, and the working-class history that's been left to rot. [Winner of BorderLight Festival 2025's "Vivid Visual Theatre Award"] April 8 @ 7pm CT Doors / 7:30pm CT Show April 22 @ 7pm CT Doors / 7:30pm CT Show April 29 @ 7pm CT Doors / 7:30pm CT Show May 6 @ 7pm CT Doors / 7:30pm CT Show May 13 @ 7pm CT Doors / 7:30pm CT Show Kevin Michael Wesson (he/they) is a proudly unrepresented puppeteer/deviser based in Chicago, originally from Tampa, FL. Credits include: Leonardo! & Christmas Carol (Emmy-winning Manual Cinema), “Where we go together” or The Flashlight Play, CAMPOUT, rustbelt. (Theatre Nobody), Dog or Cats; Augmented Body (Steppenwolf LOOKOUT), House of the Exquisite Corpse I-V (Rough House Puppet Arts), Elements of Style (The Neo-Futurists). His works have been mentioned in American Theatre Magazine, The Chicago Cultural Center, Earth First! Journal, No Proscenium, The Puppetry Journal, NPR, and various curation for/residencies with Jane Adams Hull-House Museum, Links Hall, Chicago Puppet Lab, The National Puppetry Conference, The Valdez Theater Conference, & Intuit: Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art. A firm believer in DIY ethos, they currently organize works-in-progress & community programming for Agitator Artist Collective, Rough House Puppet Arts, Stop Motion Plant, etc. Slam, PUPPETQUEERS Chicago, and Physical Theater Festival Chicago. Theatre Nobody is a radical experimental free theatre outfit based in Chicago.
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There are a handful of audience volunteers throughout the show are give the option to do very small tasks; their participation is completely optional.
Ages: 13 +
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About Theatre Nobody
Theatre Nobody is a radical experimental free theatre outfit based in Chicago.