The Neo-Futurists" signature show is an ever-changing attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes. Each week the ensemble adds between two and twelve new plays to the menu. Every performance is an unreproduceable collage of the comic and tragic, the political and personal, the visceral and experimental. Performed since 1988, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is the longest-running production in
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Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind"s title is purposely obtuse, as is The Neo-Futurists philosophy on theater at large: It's an aggressively weird and plucky theater company that prides itself as being immediate and fusing "sport, poetry, and living-newspaper"; into something audiences can watch. Pinning down The Neo-Futurists is moot, but the same can"t be said for its signature show. Since 1988
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