Song About Himself

• March 13th through April 5th.
• Fridays and Saturdays, 8PM, Sunday matinees, 2PM
• $25 suggested donation, more if you've got it, less if you don't,free if yur broke. 
• Runtime 90 minutes

“Wonderfully, exceedingly weird.” —Chicago Tribune

“Nearly perfect… a world of ridiculous, ominous inadequacy.” —Chicago Reader

“Subtle, elegiac.” —Houston Chronicle

"Musical, explosive, thrilling...this show sings." -- Austin Chronicle 

“A rich psychological and metaphysical landscape.” —Newcity

“An engaging, resonant ode.” —Time Out Chicago

Theater Oobleck presents a remount of Mickle Maher's prescient 2015 story of a dystopian world involving artificial intelligence, Walt Whitman, free jazz, and slush.

Starring Diana Slickman, Vicki Walden, and HB Ward, Song About Himself is set in a future where the Internet has been effectively destroyed by viruses and malware, and people communicate in little more than mumbles. 

Looking for human interaction of any kind, Carol, a woman made extraordinary by her ability to speak relatively clearly, signs into a mysterious social media site created by a rogue artificial intelligence, only to find that, strangely, she is its only member. The secrets she uncovers there will either cure or break her lonely heart.

Employing minimalist staging and an original form of ornate verse derived from a corruption of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Song About Himself goes at the question every play asks: “Do words, in the end, help?"

Sound/music composed by Mark Messing.

Movement direction by Julia Rhoads.

Lighting by Martha Bayne.