Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?

Click your heels and step into The Witch Project — a spellbinding love letter dressed up as a ritual, tracing one queer man's obsession with a pair of ruby slippers, and the man who rescued them from oblivion. Drawing connections between centuries of persecution and desire — from the witch trials to the AIDS crisis — the play asks what we owe the dead, and what they leave behind for us to find.

Part performance art, part detective story, part concert featuring the music of queer icons, The Witch Project invites you into a world where memory, myth, and longing collide. Amidst the darkness we’re living through, will spells save us? Is art enough?

Written + Performed by Alex Benjamin

Executive Produced by Maggie Meiners + Matt Meiners

Production management by Sarah Skaggs

Running time: Approximately 1 hour, 10 minutes with no intermission

Developed in part during residency at Ragdale Foundation. Influenced in its original production by core collaborators Sarah Skaggs, Lucy Wirtz, and Derek Elliott.

Poster design by Emily Bieniek, inspired by Silence = Death and the AIDS activist movement. Image not for resale.

Used by permission of ACT UP New York (actupny.com).

Proceeds benefit AIDS Foundation Chicago and ACT UP.

ONE NIGHT ONLY

October 3 + 7:30PM + Winnetka Chapel

Photo by Elliot Mandel Photography