Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind at Woolly Mammoth Theatre

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

Woolly Mammoth Theatre
641 D St NW Washington

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is an ever-changing extravaganza of 30 plays in one hour. The Chicago-based Neo-Futurists return to Woolly for their fifth time with one of their biggest successes, inspired by Dada, surrealism and the spontaneity of late-night sketch comedy. Created by Greg Allen, the show's "menu" of plays is strung up on a clothesline, and you and your fellow audience mates determine the order by yelling out which piece you want to see next. Every performance is a unique experience, and the Neo-Futurists are masters of blending funny with poignant, everyman with abstract, political with personal. Leave the kids at home for this one, because any given night could bring foul language, partial nudity, smells from questionable sources, and/or a variety of startling sensations.

Thru - Jan 3, 2016

Price: $35-$68

Box Office: 202-393-3939

www.woollymammoth.net/too-much-light

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MetroWeekly - Highly Recommended

"...Returning to Woolly Mammoth is another round of the Neo-Futurists’ boisterously fun and unpredictable Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. An interesting format of fast and furious mini-plays that come with the promise that no two performances are ever alike and yet all are based on the player’s real lives, it’s a grand exercise in theatrical flexibility."

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- Kate Wingfield

MD Theatre Guide - Highly Recommended

"...Before I tell you Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is brilliant, and that you should immediately go out and get a ticket (which I promise you I will tell you), I want to give a little background for those unlucky few who don’t yet know of this signature work from the rightly celebrated Neo-Futurists. Billed as “the longest-running show’’ in Chicago, it also boasts of never being the same twice, which seems almost incalculably likely. It is an “attempt” to present 30 plays in 60 minutes, against the onstage clock and in an order dictated by the audience. The show is simultaneously almost as old as I am, and new every night. Given a ‘menu’ of play titles, which vary nightly, the audience is encouraged to yell out which play should go next. Conditioned like Pavlov’s cat, we quickly and enthusiastically yell a number between 1 and 30 upon hearing the word “curtain.”"

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- Chris Williams

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind at Woolly Mammoth Theatre