As a part of our ongoing quest to bring you new and exciting programming each year, we are proud to welcome one of the most innovative theater groups in Chicago to this year’s Midwest FurFest: The NeoFuturists, creators of the long-running play “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind”, which is currently celebrating its twentieth anniversary! “Too Much Light…” is a rollicking, exciting, thought-provoking, and at times interactive attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes.

In the NeoFuturists’ own words: “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 night of performance, we create an unreproducable living newspaper collage of the comic and tragic, the political and personal, and the visceral and experimental.”

National Geographic Traveler Magazine says, “This experimental company delivers exactly what good satiric theater should: wry humor, skilled slapstick, thought-provoking social commentary – sometimes all at once. It’s been a long time since I enjoyed myself so much at a theater, since I laughed out loud so much.”

The NeoFuturists will be preparing a performance specially tailored to Midwest FurFest and furry fandom; you don’t want to miss it! Their performance will be on the main stage in Ravinia Ballroom DEF on Saturday, from 5 PM – 6 PM (immediately before the Furry Variety Show). This promises to be a one-of-a-kind show. We hope to see you there!

You can find out more about the NeoFuturists at http://www.neofuturists.org.