[Cross-posted] It’s been six years since the last time we put something like this together, but the time has come again for the LAFF Dinner and Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind Outing (hereafter referred to as TMLMTBGB)!

When:
Saturday, October 10, 2009

Where:
Dinner – still being determined, but it will be on the north side of Chicago or near suburbs. Dinner will start around 7 PM.
TMLMTBGB – At the Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL 60640 (at the corner of Foster and Ashland). We’ll be taking out place in line at around 10:15 PM. Doors open at 11:00, and the show starts at 11:30.

How Much?
Dinner will be in the $10-$20 range, tax and tip included. TMLMTBGB is $9 plus the roll of a six-sided die ($10 – $15)

What the Heck Is It?
Dinner is a meal that is typically eaten in the evening…oh, that’s not what you’re asking about.

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is a production of the Neo-Futurists that is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary. What is the show? In their own words:

Too Much Light…, with its ever-changing “menu,” is an attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes. The single unifying element of these plays is that they are performed from a perspective of absolute honesty. We always appear as ourselves on stage, speaking directly from our personal experiences. Each short play is written by a performer, honed by the ensemble, and randomly collaged with twenty-nine other plays through high-energy audience participation. Each week, these plays shift as ensemble members add new plays to the existing body of work. Each night of performance, we create an unreproducable living newspaper collage of the comic and tragic, the political and personal, and the visceral and experimental.

In short, it’s fun, it’s exhilarating, it’s theater that will make you laugh and make you think.

We’ll have more information coming soon. The last time we put together a Too Much Light outing, we had 30+ LAFF members show up. Let’s see if we can beat that!