When you invite someone to devise a piece of theatre with you, you’re basically asking, “Do you trust me?” Everything that follows hangs on this thread of trust, and you must believe that you’ll both get to the end in one piece…somehow.   Throughout Strangerland’s creation, we have pulled in every possible trusted collaborator to [...]

Strangerland, Sideshow’s next production for the Chicago Fringe, started as an idea, then a conversation, which grew into a website, some workshops and a DCA performance. What we have now is the product of two and a half years of work: a script, now in its final stages of development.   Strangerland is Sideshow’s first [...]

Greetings from Emily Darlington Cooke and Alex Higgin-Houser, two Sideshow underlings with WAY more in common than is deemed healthy by the FDA. And we know, we’re scientists. But for reals, yo. We Facebook stalked each other when Alex came on board at Sideshow in the spring of this here year. At that time, Emily [...]