Backyard Theatre Company presents RED BIKE by Caridad Svich, an intimate, movement-driven play about a young person riding through a town that is changing faster than they can understand.
Told through memory, motion, and the rhythm of a bicycle, RED BIKE follows The Kid as they move through streets, storefronts, neighborhoods, and questions of money, power, childhood, and belonging. What happens when the place that raised you begins to disappear? What do we hold onto when the world around us is being bought, sold, and renamed?
Presented inside the Berger Park Coach House, this production invites audiences into a close, stripped-down theatrical experience where language, movement, and community carry the story.
Directed by artistic associate Emma Parsons, RED BIKE is a play about growing up, looking closely, and asking who gets to stay in the places they call home.
Tickets and info HERE.
Check out a review in Chicago Reader HERE, which includes this snippet:
… the connection between Berger’s Kid and Kunde’s Old Guy is charming, and filled with insights about the need for intergenerational collaboration in order to fight all the Men Who Own the Towns. “Dreams and visions are two different things,” Old Guy reminds Kid at one point. As she rides through the story, Kid gets her own ideas about how to tell the difference and not get sucked into consumerist hype at the cost of her own humanity.
