Season X is Coming!

SEASON X IS COMING! That’s right, it’s Eclectic Full Contact Theatre’s TENTH season! And we are coming back to live performance with a commitment to making everything we do more accessible to our audiences here in Chicago, but also bringing our projects to audiences around the country—and the world! WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR EFCT? Audio descriptions and touch tours for the visually challenged, sign language interpretation for the hard of hearing, captioning videos, and providing transcripts of audio productions. Adjusting performances for those with sensory issues. Live streaming and video on demand versions of our performances. Tackling new mediums to redefine what a theatre company can be. Developing new works to tell the stories and highlight the voices that aren't heard enough. OK, SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR ME? It means an infinitely more varied and diverse amount of entertainment that speak to a wider audience, and the ability to enjoy these stories several different ways, whether you can make it into the theatre or not. Simply put, it means you get so much more than you ever expected from a storefront theatre company. GREAT! SO WHERE DO I COME IN? All of this is going to take money. From cameras to sound equipment. From royalties to actor salaries. From material to build a set to the people who can build it without losing fingers. Every aspect takes capital, and if we want to keep theatre affordable (we do!) then the majority of that capital has to come from donations. EFCT remains committed to the number one principle we started with ten years ago--artists should be paid. Paid more than covering gas money for ten weeks of work. So it's people like you--people who love theatre, who want to see more of it, and want to see that most ancient and analog of art forms expand and thrive in a digital world--who can make all this happen. Our fundraiser gives you the opportunity to see where your money is going. Simply choose the category you want your donation to go to, whether it's equipment, salaries, licensing fees, or whatever. It's up to you! Not only will you get the satisfaction of knowing you've helped EFCT take a giant step forward into making theatre the grassroots, equitable, and community-based art form it was always meant to be, but it's also tax deductible. So you'll also get the satisfaction of hanging on to more of your money at the end of the year! Eclectic Full Contact Theatre has never taken itself too seriously (it's called a PLAY, y'all...) but we've always been serious about doing everything we can to reach the broadest audience (Eclectic) and to connect with our audience, be that here in Chicago or around the world, through showing exactly what it takes to do theatre here in the Windy City (Full Contact). So we're continuing that. We have big plans and high aspirations. But they will only come to fruition with help. Your help. So please, make a donation. No amount is too small (or too large!) We'd love for you to be a part of making Season Ten the greatest season yet.