A group of people gathers around a table as if at a seance. The walls behind them look like crisscrossed iron bars. A young woman is standing behind the bars.

Eclectic Full Contact Theatre’s first full-length production in Chicago since 2019, a world premiere penned by Maggie Lou Rader, is haunting, literally. Based on the first reported instance of spiritual possession in the midwest, in Watseka, Illinois in the late 19th century, the story merges ghostly occurrences with the all-too-real trauma of a family consumed […]

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