LUNACY!
Written by Andrew Swanson
WORLD PREMIERE
Jackalope Theatre
February 22 – April 1, 2015
LUNACY! imagines a madcap 1969 in which the conspiracy theorists were right. Kennedy guaranteed a man on the moon by the end of the decade, and NASA is running out of time to fulfill the promise. July 15: A young physicist reports for duty at MGM Borehamwood Studios. The mission at hand? Film a simulated moon landing that the whole world will fall for. With a young Donald Rumsfeld in the director’s chair; CIA agents in the roles of our space-bound heroes, and the whole of Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic technology at their fingertips, what could possibly go wrong?
"Jackalope Theatre pulls off fake moon landing...For a small company like Jackalope — which deservedly won the League of Chicago Theatre's emerging theater award Monday night — this kind of show represents admirable ambition"
-Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
"Fascinatingly funny!"
-Time Out Chicago
"Conspiracy theories never add up, but they do have their pleasures. Just so with Andrew Burden Swanson's crypto-historical comedy"
-Chicago Reader
"Conspiracy theorists with a sense of humor are ready-made for this audience...enough silly moments to keep everyone entertained."
-The Times of Indiana and Illinois
"Ludicrously watchable!"
-Newcity Stage
Poster by Jen Dorman / Photos by Joel Maisonet