"Goodnight, Absalom!"

It's "GOODNIGHT, ABSALOM!", the latest stage production from the Fox & Beggar Theater! This surreal dark comedy fuses STREET THEATER, PUPPETRY, and CONTEMPORARY DANCE into a whimsical critique of American capitalism, performed out of our hand-painted pop-up solar-powered double-decker Vaudeville stage!

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Come catch a FREE performance on Friday at Powderhorn Park, or on Sunday at Frogtown Farm. Bring a lawnchair or a blanket and a friend!

Show starts at 7:30 and will run approximately 75 minutes with a short audience Q+A afterwards.

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Here’s the set-up:

In the fictional town of Absalom, a surreal chess match is played between two demonic railroad barons known as the White King and the Black King. Their strange game moves through a series of poignant and unique vignettes -- the Dance of the Pawns, the Dance of the Knights, the Dance of the Bishops, etc. -- in which the unfortunate chess pieces find themselves being made to do battle inside a prison they do not fully understand. As the game progresses, the chess pieces begin to become cognizant of their bleak situation … and attempt to lead a rebellion against the game itself.

"Goodnight, Absalom!" is a dark comedy about a plutocracy that has gamified our world, obsessed with winning more and more wealth until the world’s resources are gone. The show fuses the Spaghetti Western genre with some dark moments from the American industrial age (not to mention a barrage of Faulkner references), taking a hard look at a critically polarized nation and questioning who might gain from keeping it divided, distracted, and disenfranchised.