Hard Times
Date/Time
Date(s) - Sunday, December 3, 2017 ∙ 12:00 AM - Thursday, January 18, 2018 ∙ 11:59 PM
All Day
Location
Water Tower Water Works
Categories
Hard Times, through January 18th, Water Tower Water Works, Chicago. Lookingglass launches its 30th Season with the return of the award-winning, circus-infused Hard Times. A Dickensian carnival of characters inhabits the streets of smoke-choked Coketown: grim Mr. Gradgrind’s school churns out joyless students; poor Stephen Blackpool toils in the nearby mines; and mill-owner Mr. Bounderby, full of bluster and bombast, presides over it all. Only when a traveling circus alights nearby, and young orphan Sissy Jupe enters their world, does a ray of hope shine through. Artistic Director Heidi Stillman adapts and directs this timeless love-letter to the power of beauty, hope, and imagination. www.lookingglasstheatre.org