THE TWINK ON THE FIRE ESCAPE An LGBT Pop Up Performance Comes to Chicago
Five years ago, a twink wound up on Zach Zimmerman's fire escape on a snowy Chicago night. The events that led up to that moment and what happened next changed his life forever. In this pop-up performance art piece, Zach will lead a walking tour retracing the events that led up to the twink on his fire escape. Participants will visit key landmarks in the saga, eating and drinking along the way as the story is told.
"I'm moving to New York in May, so I began reflecting on projects that I could only do in Chicago," says Zach Zimmerman, the creator and tour guide of "The Twink on the Fire Escape." "It reminded me of this story - of a twink who has just moved to Chicago and the short-lived lust affair we had which led to the most terrifying night of my life."
"The Twink on the Fire Escape" runs 60 minutes and tells the story in three parts visiting three locations. First, guests will be taken to an unnamed Swedish breakfast restaurant and enjoy a cinnamon roll and a mimosa, then they'll visit a hot dog restaurant/bar and enjoy a shot, and finally they'll visit the site of the fire escape where the story reaches its climax.
About the Creator
Zach Zimmerman is a writer, performer, and improviser in Chicago. His solo work includes Straight Man (iO, Peoples Improv Theatre), Sunday School (Peoples Improv Theatre), Chicago Reader-Recommended Spell (iO), and Luke Babylon: The Christian Magician (Annoyance Theatre). He has improvised around the world with The Second City Theatricals, iO Theatre, Mission Improvable, and Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Musical. As a writer, his sketches, essays, scenes, one-acts, and full-length plays have been read, sometimes re-read, and sometimes produced in real life at American Theatre Company, Annoyance Theatre, and The New Colony, and online at Dose, OMGFacts, and The Huffington Post Blog. He is a proud graduate of Princeton University. Follow him on Medium.
Sunday, March 19 - April 16, 2017 @ 2pm (NO SHOW April 9)
Tours depart from the intersection of Clark/Belmont
Tickets available at www.twinkonfire.com
Groups and custom requests can be emailed to twinkonfire@gmail.com
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