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KEEP YOUR GUARD UP, SMITTY HARBINGER Comes to Den Theatre

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Local actor and playwright Tim Campos performs his latest one-person show Keep Your Guard Up, Smitty Harbinger at The Den Theatre, Thursday through Sunday, July 19 - 22, 2018. Tickets are on sale now at The Den Theatre box office 773-697-3830 and www.silenttheatre.com (Limited Engagement - One Week Only!)

Directed by Tonika Todorova, a Silent Theatre Company ensemble member and featuring live music by Elliot Taggart and set design by Grant Sabin. Keep Your Guard Up, Smitty Harbinger is an uproarious, hour-long physical storytelling comedy that is too funny for words. A silent play inspired by the slapstick comedies of the 1920s with a modern sensibility that is fun for the whole family! From maintaining the guard booth and lift gates, to pratfalls, avoiding bees and redirecting traffic, this play has a bit of everything that can conceivably go wrong on the job of a solitary booth operator, Smitty Harbinger, while he attempts to deal with and overcome every challenging situation before he smitties everything up.

Silent Theatre Company seeks to create a universal language one gesture at a time.

Supported by The MacArthur Funds for Arts and Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

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