Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes) - UniSC Theatre & Performance

UniSC Theatre & Performance presents 30 Neo-Futurist Plays from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes) by Greg Allen

Produced by the students in DRA 300: Theatre Production

An Amateur Production By Arrangement with ORiGiN Theatrical, on behalf of Playscripts, Inc.

In the late 1980s, a Chicago-based experimental theatre group known as the Neo-Futurists launched Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. American theatre artist Greg Allen and his collaborators assembled an unique production of thirty plays within the framework of a sixty minute performance. The result: The longest running theatre production in Chicago theatre history with over 25 years of performances.

In this interactive theatre production, each evening's audience selects the performance's sequence from a thirty-play menu. The production's plays present a wide-ranging human kaleidoscope of our day-to-day interactions with each other and with our larger society. As an audience, you experience plays which are funny, dramatic, bittersweet, absurd, experimental and often quite moving throughout the evening!

Content Warning: Several neo-futurist plays will contain adult themes, adult language, content that may offend some people and one play contains references to suicide. 

Tickets: All performances are free.

Performance Dates: 

• Thursday, 22 May at 7:00 pm
• Friday, 23 May at 7:00 pm
• Saturday, 24 May at 2:00 pm
• Saturday, 24 May at 7:00 pm

Location: K1.G.09 Performance Studio on the Sippy Downs campus. It is next to carparks P6 & P7 and the Art Gallery.

Other information: Late arrivals may be permitted entry in between each neo-futurist play. However, please endeavour to arrive early. Doors open 15 minutes prior to the performance. If you have any questions regarding this production, please contact Dr Carl Walling (cwalling@usc.edu.au)