Pre-Posthumanists Present: Paranoia!

If you live in the Chicago area, I hope you'll check out the first Pre-Posthumanists event Wednesday, August 28th at Strawdog Theatre. It's a great idea for a new reading series started by the ever-awesome Ryan Duke, Grayson Daskawicz-Davis, and Simon A. Smith (whose work appears in The Way We Sleep) where they select pieces of prose fiction and produce them as plays.  The show will feature a piece by (again, another The Way We Sleep contributor) James Tadd Adcox, as well as a section from More Like a Siren, Less Like a Bell. James' is about a mean computer (I believe *UPDATE: IT WASN'T!) and mine is about '80s music and V.D. so there's something for everyone!

Here's the press release:

The Pre-PostHumanists will host their first reading to the delight of their Overlord, the Singular Consciousness, on August 28th, 2013 in Strawdog Theatre’s Hugen Hall, 3829 N Broadway.

Titled "Pre-PostHumanists Present: Paranoia" the reading will feature the stories of James Tadd Adcox and C. James Bye, hosted by Brandon Eells (Singular Consciousness) and Eleni Pappageorge (Melissa Maynard), with performances by Sara Gorsky, Matt Kahler, John Leen, Kayla Pulley, Ben Vigeant and Johnard Washington, and directed by Alex Huntsberger.

Editors Ryan Duke, Simon A. Smith, and Grayson Daskawicz-Davis select short stories and deliver them to a director for casting. The story is then presented as a short play reading with actors playing different roles and minimal staging.

Doors open at 7pm, show at 8pm. Tickets available at preposthumanists.com.