Theatre for One (T41) is a mobile state-of-the-art performance space for one actor and one audience member. Conceived by Artistic Director Christine Jones and designed by LO/TEK architects, T41 commissions new work created specifically for this venue’s one-to-one  relationship. Embracing serendipity and spontaneity, T41 is presented in public spaces in which audience members are invited to engage in an intimate theatrical exchange and enter the theater space not  knowing what to expect. This fall, in collaboration with the Chicago  Architecture Biennial, The Poetry Foundation, Floating Museum, and  Illinois Humanities, T41 is bringing to Chicago Poetry For One:  This is a Rehearsal, an iteration of T41’s most intimate and compelling  aspect—the exchange between human beings of meaning, beauty, work, and attention. Poetry For One will feature twelve poets reading works created for the booth. Reading and listening to poems in the privacy of the T41 booth amplifies the power of poetry to dissolve the boundaries between writers and readers, performers and audiences, and human beings from human beings, thus intensifying the intellectual and emotional connections poetry creates, and it makes the poetry—and language itself—shimmer and matter.  

Made by Many Team: Andrew Schneider, Anne Carson, avery r. young, Bryan Hunt,  Christine Jones, CM Burroughs, Helene Achanzar, JC Widman, Jessica Dean Turner,  Kelsey Leigh Ervi, Kristiana Rae Colón, M’Reld Green, Mara Isaacs, Maryam Abdi,  Michael Francis, Mike Steele, Monty Cole, Nile Lansana, Nita Mendoza, Octopus  Theatricals, R.E. Dewoskin, Robert Currie, Roy Kinsey, Sasha Smith, Shara Nova,  SRĐA, Sydney Charles, Thomas Dixon, Tina Post, Ydalmi Noriega 

Produced by Octopus Theatricals  

With support from Jeanne Donovan and the Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation, and  the Poetry Foundation