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DOGS at The Edge Off Broadway

Dates: 11/1/2024 - 11/24/2024

📍 Theatre:
The Edge Off Broadway

Red Theater
1133 W Catalpa Ave
Chicago, IL 60640

Tickets: $30 - $50


Red Theater is thrilled to open the 24/25 season with the world premiere of Chicago playwright Hanna Kime’s DOGS, directed by Becca Holloway, running November 1 - 24, 2024 at The Edge Off Broadway in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood, 1133 W. Catalpa Ave. Tickets are available now at www.redtheater.org.

“It is the Fourth of July sometime in the future, and history is about to be made. We are about to witness the annual Hot Dog Eating Contest. The five women invited to this stage have set out to conquer nature, destroy their own limits, and shatter our perception of what the human body is or isn’t capable of. DOGS is a dizzying, anti-plot, high-intensity exploration of capitalism, competition, and consumption that begs the question: how long can we keep all this up?” - New Play Exchange

Comments playwright Hanna Kime on her world premiere, “I wrote DOGS in an effort to explore the lengths people - and particularly women - will go to in order to be ‘the best.’ More and more, our culture encourages everyone, everywhere to destroy themselves for the smallest bit of recognition. This play uses the hot dog eating contest to crack open the systems - capitalism, diet culture, nationalism, fame - that pit women against one another, and asks if the sacrifices those systems demand are really worth it.” In other words, director Becca Holloway aims to ask three questions with this production: “What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to be a woman? What does it mean to be a hot dog?”

Comments co-Artistic Directors Clare Brennan and Wyatt Kent, “Hanna has been recognized throughout Chicago and across the country as an exciting and unique theatrical voice, and we’re so honored to be the first professional company to produce her work. With a veteran director of new work leading an absolutely knockout cast, audiences don’t want to miss this hilarious, lightning-fast roller coaster of a show.”

General admission tickets are $30. As part of Red’s mission to make theater by putting people first, a limited number of $10 access tickets are available for students, artists, or anyone on a tight budget. Purchasing a ticket at our $50 pay-it-forward tier helps us sustain Red’s accessibility efforts. Use code ACCESS at checkout for $10 tickets.

DOGS at The Edge Off Broadway Schedule

Friday, November 1 - Sunday, November 24, 2024
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, & Saturdays at 7:30P, Sundays at 3P; Saturday 11/16 @ 2P
Previews Wed 10/30 + Thurs 10/31 @ 7:30P

Cast and Creative Team for DOGS at The Edge Off Broadway

Cast

Elisabeth Del Toro
One
Stephanie Shum
Two
Allyce Torres
Three
Tatiana Pavela
Four
Isabella Moran del Cueto
Five
Julian "Joolz" Stroop
The Host

Creative Team

Becca Holloway
Director
Hanna Kime
Playwright

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The Edge Off Broadway

1133 W Catalpa Ave
Chicago, IL 60640

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