I Promised Myself to Live Faster

Hell in a Handbag

Jeff Recommended – Non Equity

Extended to May 7th 

March 23 – April 30

Chicago premiere.

Jeff Recommended

“Highly Recommended” – New City Chicago

“Recommended” – Chicago Reader

Tickets $42-$61.

730p Thu-Sat; 4p Sun

@ downstairs Chopin Theatre Studio

Questions: HandbagProductions@gmail.com


Refund/Illness Policy from Hell in a Handbag – “Please note there are no refunds for this event. In the event of illness, you can exchange your tickets for an alternate date or receive credit for another Handbag show”

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23-Mar-23 – 7-May-23
730pm Thu-Sat; 4pm Sun

Chicago Premiere – Hell in a Handbag Productions is pleased to continue its 21st season with the Chicago premiere of I Promised Myself to Live Faster, an intergalactic queer extravaganza featuring closeted extraterrestrials, high stakes pursuits and nuns from outer space, created and conceived by Pig Iron Theatre Company, with text by Greg Moss and Pig Iron and directed by JD Caudill*.

This space epic tells the tale of our reluctant hero Tim (Robert Williams*) who’s been put through an emotional ringer these past few months. Tim life takes a radical turn when an order of intergalactic nuns charge him with a quest: retrieve the Holy Gay Flame from the clutches of the evil emperor to save the race of Homosexuals and restore the balance of power in the universe. Once Tim is captured by the fabulously androgynous Ah-Ni (David Cerda*), Tim goes places he never dreamed in this ridiculous and delirious allegorical adventure. 

Author

Created and conceived by Pig Iron Theatre Company, with text by Greg Moss and Pig Iron

Director

J.D. Caudill

Performers

Robert Williams, David Cerda, Kim Boler, Taylor Dalton, Lolly Extract, Sydney Genco, Caitlin Jackson, Tyler AnthonySmith, Ben Stacy and Emmanual Ramirez. Understudies: Connar Brown, Andres Coronado, Abbey Demorow, Ashley Graham, Rebecca Husk, Brian Knall, Michael Christopher Radfordand and Scott Sawa.

Production

Jonathan Berg-Einhorn (Scenic Designer), Beth Laske-Miller and Rachel Sypniewski (Costume Designers), Liz Cooper (Lighting Designer), Danny Rockett (Sound Designer), Bren Coombs (Props Designer), Jamal Howard (Choreographer), Lolly Extract/Jabberwocky Marionettes (Puppet Designer and Puppetry), Sydney Genco* (Make-up Designer), Keith Ryan* (Wigs Designer), Carly Belle Cason (Violence Designer), Spencer Douglas Clark (Intimacy Designer), Jenna Raithel (Stage Management) and Leo Batutis and Scott Sawa (Assistant Directors)

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Theater American 2023