Just when you thought it was safe to back into the laboratory . . .

See . . . Thomas Alva Edison's famous escape from a chain-gang while shackled to a large murderous moron !


See . . . Violent acts performed against members of Alexander Graham Bell's family !

Edison, the bloody bastard, poses calmly for Matthew Brady's famous photograph unaware that Tesla's head would be visible.

See . . .
Edison scorn a devil, a ghost, and Divine Grace !

See . . .
Helen Keller
be blind !

See . . .
Edison invent the electric chair!

Theater Oobleck's new play, NECESSITY, is about history's
most neglected inventor, the woefully overlooked Thomas Edison.

In 1877 Thomas Edison announced that in six months time he would introduce the first practical incandescent light bulb. By 1879, after spending $40,000 on thousands of experiments, he had failed. Edison was taken to court by his Wall Street backers and imprisoned for investment fraud. There he would have died a forgotten electrical tinkerer if not rescued from obscurity by Theater Oobleck.



Featuring:
as Alexander Graham Bell
as Nikola Tesla & Mr. Earl (the sadistic guard)
as Edison
as Helen Keller
as Albert Schweitzer & Thomas Bell
as OT
(a creamy and delicious blend of Forrest Gump,
that Sling Blade guy, and other "magical idiots"
of recent pop culture)


Must close November 7

at FOOTSTEPS THEATRE
5230 N. Clark
(one block north of Foster, across from Women & Children First
parking available in the lot at the corner of Ashland & Summerdale, courtesy of FirStar Bank )
Thursday, Friday, Saturday . 8pm
$ 7, More if you've got it. Always FREE if you're broke.
for info: (773) 252-3154



HEY KIDS!
Check out the Oobleck
FUN PAGE
and see if you can identify
Edison's Famous Victims

EDISON LOTS OF
COOL FACTS
AND
EMBARRASSING DIRT
ON BIG ED!




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