FIRST FLOOR THEATER  *WORLD PREMIERE*

Eighty-two percent of the planet's people have dispensed with their physical bodies and uploaded their consciousnesses to IceBox in hopes of reaching a digital paradise. Some of the last employees of IceBox and Co. continue to provide transitional services for clients making the ascent. Benjamin has won the lottery, and as he spends his last day in the office, his coworkers battle with their own moral and socioeconomic inability to abandon their individual visions of reality - what it is and what it should be.

REFRIGERATOR confronted the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and technology in a disturbingly possible future.

Cast:

Nathaniel Andrew -- Roland
Andrew Cutler -- Benjamin
Shariba Rivers -- Mitchell
Avi Roque -- Nochlin
Kevin Stangler -- Krauss

REFRIGERATOR was commissioned by The Goodman’s Playwright Unit and went on to a reading at Playwright’s Horizons.

Production Team:

William Boles -- Scenic Design
Jared Gooding -- Lighting Design
Thomas Dixon -- Sound Design
Uriel Gomez -- Costume Design
Amanda Cantlin -- Properties Design
Sid Branca -- Projections Design
Katrina Dion -- Dramatug
Morgan McNaught -- Dramaturg
Charlie Baker -- Fight & Intimacy Choreography
Aaryanna Gariss -- Stage Management
Caitlin McCarthy -- Production Management
Bobby Huggins -- Technical Director
Catherine Miller -- Casting Director
AJ Schwartz -- Assistant Director
Anastarr Alvarez -- Assistant Stage Management

Reader Recommended!

“First Floor Theater Artistic Director Hutch Pimentel directs the world premiere of Lucas Baisch's righteously nightmarish drama of office politics at the end of the world….This is an angry and timely piece of theater about the precarious state of our imminent future.”

— Dmitry Samarov, Chicago Reader

Highly Recommended!

“There is so much about Lucas Baisch’s bold, new play REFRIGERATOR in First Floor Theater’s production playing at The Den that I respect and support. This is not a company that plays it safe. Exploration of radical change requires risk, nerve, innovation, and total willingness to challenge the audience. These artists deliver — setting the standard, even, for work that ardently pursues conversation.”

—Erin Shea Brady, Performink