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The Mannequins’ Ball
Runs Jan 23 – Mar 01, 2025
On the one night a year when the mannequins gather for a ball, one mannequin stumbles into the wrong place and is forced to impersonate an important political figure. The Mannequins’ Ball joins the absurdity of modern politics with the avant garde interest in human mechanization that characterized the experimental theatre of the inter-war years.
1655 W. Cortland
Chicago IL 60622
Chicago IL 60622
773-384-0494
“No other theater can consistently suspend reality to create overwhelming and oftentimes-otherworldly atmosphere, usually before the action or dialogue even begins, like Trap Door Theatre. To say that they are the foremost purveyors avant-garde theater in Chicago is to understate this portal to alternate realms. Hidden down a narrow walkway, next to a bar, behind a restaurant, on a side street in Bucktown is a black trap door that opens into the extremes of theatrical imagination. You could drive by it and easily miss this purgatorial paradise of the sublime surreal,” Venus Zarris, Chicago Stage Review