Silent Theatre's Substack

The little performance company that without speaking spoke to everyone

Dear STC Community,

Silent Theatre is about to turn 20! To celebrate this giant milestone, we are launching this Substack, in which we will relive the best of STC’s moments, offer creative content that has never had eyes laid upon, and offer some insights and commentary on the performance art world as we see it. We hope you stick around!

If you don’t wish to have your headspace taken up by any of our nonsense, or if you’re receiving this in error, feel free to tell us to bugger off and unsubscribe, which is as easy as clicking the unsubscribe button at the bottom of this email. If curiosity led you here via the Visceral Adventure’s stack or the Substack app, welcome!

Silent Theatre is a performance arts collective out of Chicago. Our claim to fame lies in the fact that 20 years ago, thirteen of us left our jobs, apartments, friends, and family behind and got on a giant school bus that we converted into a mobile home to travel the country coast-to-coast with a little play called Lulu: a black and white silent play.

This was before smartphones and GPS (we used an atlas!) and our collective adventures will (at some point) be regaled here. You can find out more about us as we go along or you can see a montage of our ten year anniversary here:

This inaugural post is only meant to say hello. If you wish to go, unsubscribe bellow and sorry to have bothered you. If you wish to remain, please note that our first drop will happen on Christmas Eve with the digital rendition premiere of our live performance adaptation of A Christmas Carol: the silent bah-humbug. In our version, Scrooge is a theatre producer instead of a money lender (because theatre is so lucrative 😂) but to our credit, the aesthetic was *chef’s kiss*. Here’s the trailer of our production:

Here’s to 20 years of unmitigated tomfoolery and shenanigans!