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Season 17
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The 2024/2025 Season
Season 17 begins with the remount of last season's hit The Smuggler by Ronán Noone. Then, the U.S. Premiere of Dummy in Diaspora written and performed by Esho Rasho. The season continues with the World Premiere of Neighborhood Watch by Rehana Lew Mirza. The season concludes with the 16th Annual Living Newspaper Festival of new 10 minute plays inspired by the news headlines throughout the year. And, stay in the loop on the exciting work being presented in the New Frontier Series all season long. Come experience the captivating, the communal, and the immediate in new plays at Jackalope.
A Limited-Run Remount of...
The Smuggler
by Ronán Noone
Directed by Gus Menary*
Starring Andrew Swanson
January 14th – 25th, 2025
Jackalope Theatre in Broadway Armory Park
5917 N Broadway St, Chicago, IL 60660
Jackalope Theatre Company remounts its thriller in rhyme, The Smuggler, reuniting the team behind the successful winter 2024 run, now scheduled at the Broadway Armory. It is 2025. Tim Finnegan is a clever and enterprising Irish immigrant tending bar on the island of Amity, an affluent summer enclave off the coast of Massachusetts. When his child falls ill and he loses his job, Finnegan is drawn into the dark world that exists only in the shadows of the wealthy island.
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The U.S. Premiere of...
Dummy in Diaspora
written & performed by Esho Rasho
Directed by Karina Patel
February 26th – March 23rd, 2025
Jackalope Theatre in Broadway Armory Park
5917 N Broadway St, Chicago, IL 60660
A coming-of-age solo play about a Middle Eastern American boy, Essa, whose parents are refugees. During its most recent run in the 2024 Edinburgh Festival, The Scotsman in its four-star review said Dummy in Diaspora is “brutally honest” and “chilling.” Essa confesses the experience of growing up in a country that doesn’t have a place for him. He navigates sexuality, the demands of a religion passed onto him from his parents, learning the English language, the fleetingness of youth and a nicotine demon that won't leave him alone. Absurd. Raw. Untold.
The World Premiere of...
Neighborhood Watch
by Rehana Lew Mirza
Directed by Kaiser Ahmed
May 22nd – June 28th, 2025
Jackalope Theatre in Broadway Armory Park
5917 N Broadway St, Chicago, IL 60660
Neighborhood Watch is a sharp and heightened tale of islamophobia in an American suburb. Paul, a suburban family man, becomes so convinced that his new neighbor is a terrorist that in his pursuit to uncover the truth, he begins terrorizing his daughter and neighborhood.
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The 16th Annual...
Living Newspaper Festival
10-min. plays inspired by news articles.
August 21st – 25th, 2025
Jackalope Theatre in Broadway Armory Park
5917 N Broadway St, Chicago, IL 60660
The Living Newspaper Festival is inspired by the 1930s Living Newspapers of the Federal Theatre Project that created stories based on recent events. This year’s Festival will include one-act plays inspired from recent news headlines.
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