Heddatron

It all starts with a book falling from the sky. Suddenly Jane Gordon, a very depressed and very pregnant Michigan housewife in a loveless marriage, finds herself kidnapped by a clan of renegade sentient robots and whisked away to the jungles of South America where she is forced to perform the title role in a mechanical version of Hedda Gabler. As a documentarian searches for the truth about Jane’s abduction and Jane’s family mounts a search party, her 10-year-old daughter Nugget discovers a past where a tormented Henrik Ibsen squeezes out each tortured word of his greatest masterpiece.

Sideshow Theatre Company is proud to partner with robotics experts from across Chicago to present a cast of human actors and functioning robots in the Chicago premiere of Elizabeth Meriwether’s frighteningly funny Heddatron.

Heddatron is being performed as part of Steppenwolf's GARAGE REP in rotating reperatory with Strange Tree Group's The Three Faces of Doctor Crippen and UrbanTheater Company's Sonnets for an Old Century.

Tickets for the GARAGE REP cost $20 per play and are available through Steppenwolf Audience Services by calling (312) 335-1650 or online at www.steppenwolf.org/boxoffice.

Visit us at www.heddatron.com

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