About the program
Theatre for One™ (T41) is a mobile state-of-the-art performance space for one actor and one audience member. Designed by LOT/EK architects, T41 has commissioned over 100 new works by a diverse group of artists. Embracing serendipity, T41 is presented for free in public spaces. Audience members are invited to engage in an intimate theatrical performance which creates a reciprocal energy loop. – Christine Jones, Creator
This fall, in collaboration with the Chicago Architecture Biennial, The Poetry Foundation, Floating Museum, and Illinois Humanities, T41 is bringing to Chicago “Theatre for One: This Is A Rehearsal,” a poetic iteration of T41’s most intimate and compelling aspect—the exchange between human beings of meaning, beauty, work, and attention. “This Is A Rehearsal” will feature nine poets presenting newly commissioned works created for the booth, amplifying the power of poetry to dissolve the boundaries that might distance writers from readers, performers from audiences, human beings from human beings. Reading and listening to poems in the privacy of the T41 booth intensifies the intellectual and emotional connections poetry creates; it makes everything, including and especially language itself, shimmer and matter. “Theatre for One: This Is A Rehearsal” will activate poetry, connectivity, and our ability to hear one another in a space made at once for each of us and all of us. – Rachel DeWoskin, Curator
Installation is located in Randolph Square at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Featuring an Audio Installation created by Andrew Schneider
Theatre For One: This Is A Rehearsal is presented by and made by many:
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
Rachel Dewoskin
Robert Currie
Roy Kinsey
Sasha Smith
Shara Nova
SRĐA
Sydney Charles
Thomas Dixon
Tina Post
Ydalmi Noriega
Theatre for One: This is a Rehearsal poems were commissioned by the Poetry Foundation, and produced by Octopus Theatricals. The project was made possible with generous support from Jeanne Donovan and the Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation.
