Chicago Street Theatre Presents
Rules for Living
Friday, February 14 - Sunday, March 2, 2025
Chicago Street Theatre
154 East Chicago Street, Valparaiso
By Sam Holcroft
Directed by Allison Granat
After surviving the holidays, join us for this hysterical farce and watch how a family gets through their Christmas lunch!
Everyone creates their own coping strategies or “rules for living.” But what happens when an extended family gathers in the kitchen for a traditional Christmas and they each follow those rules, rigidly? As long-held mechanisms for survival are laid bare, even Mum, who's been preparing this lunch since last January, becomes embroiled. Time-honored rivalries and resentments will out. Accusations fly, relationships deconstruct, the rules take over. In Sam Holcroft's theatrically playful, dark comedy the instructions are there for all to see, audience included - so there's really no place to hide.
For example:
Rule #1 Matthew must sit to tell a lie
Rule #2 Carrie must stand to tell a joke
Rule #3 Sheena must drink to contradict
...and so it goes and the mayhem increases. Flying food may be involved.
"Bitingly funny and sharply observed.”— Exeunt Magazine
Produced by special arrangement with Casarotto Ramsay and Associates, Ltd, London
Adults - $22
Students under 21 - $20
Seniors 62+ - $20
Military - $20
Group rate 10+ - $17
NOTE! To enable group rate, all tickets must be purchased at the same time. Any late additions to the group will have to pay full price. The software will automatically apply group rate when 10 or more seats are selected.
