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Ritual & Rhythm: An Immersive Reading Series

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Pulse Theatre Chicago at eta Creative Arts Foundation

Ritual & Rhythm: An Immersive Reading Series

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City of Water
a new work by Isis Elizabeth

Set during the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave, City of Water is a work of poetic realism following a former emcee and her teenage daughter as they navigate survival in a system failing them in real time. When a dangerous piece of her past resurfaces with an opportunity that could change everything, she must choose between escape and survival while her daughter imagines a world beyond the heat.

Featuring: DeMorris Burrows, Jimiece Gilbert, Jada Jackson & Yahdina U-Deen

Rhyme Deferred
by Kamilah Forbes & Chadwick Boseman

A hip-hop reimagining of Cain and Abel, Rhyme Deferred follows two brothers—one a fading mainstream star, the other an underground prodigy—locked in a battle over artistry, integrity, and survival within a predatory industry.

Featuring: Mikhaél Amin, Kristofer Bryant, Kayla Desiree, Isis Elizabeth, Alana Hawkins, Mark James Heath, Sofía Roldan, Willie Round, & Robert Upton.

Rhythm and ritual are the foundation of this festival’s form and function. We are interested in how repetition, music, movement, and language create containers for memory, grief, joy, and release. Rhythm lives in breath, in heartbeat, in the cadence of speech; ritual lives in what we return to; habits, traditions, survival practices, and acts of care. These readings are not static presentations, but living environments. Audience and performer share space in a way that blurs observation and participation. Through heightened language, hip-hop aesthetics, and embodied storytelling, we investigate how ritual can hold pain without spectacle and how rhythm can guide both rupture and healing.

* Content Warning: Drug Use *

Estimated Runtime: 1 hour and 30-minutes; no intermission

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Pulse Theatre Chicago at eta Creative Arts Foundation - 7558 S South Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60619

Take Note

  • City of Water: a new work by Isis Elizabeth
  • Friday, July 10 at 7:30pm
  • Saturday, July 11 at 3:00pm
  • Saturday, July 11 at 7:30pm
  • Sunday, July 12 at 3:00pm
  • Rhyme Deferred by Kamilah Forbes & Chadwick Boseman
  • Friday, July 17 at 7:30pm
  • Saturday, July 18 at 3:00pm
  • Saturday, July 18 at 7:30pm
  • Sunday, July 19 at 3:00pm

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Friday, Jul 10
  1. 7:30pm
    $23.39
Saturday, Jul 11
  1. 3:00pm
    $23.39
  2. 7:30pm
    $23.39
Sunday, Jul 12
  1. 3:00pm
    $23.39
Friday, Jul 17
  1. 7:30pm
    $23.39
Saturday, Jul 18
  1. 3:00pm
    $23.39
  2. 7:30pm
    $23.39
Sunday, Jul 19
  1. 3:00pm
    $23.39