The Johnny Cycle: Part I – The Quick and the Dead

After a sold-out Christmas run of their critical success Ebenezer, The Speakeasy Society is helming their next large-scale immersive theatre production in the first of a three-part cycle inspired by Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun. Drawing material from the novel, as well as historical and artistic wartime sources, The Johnny Cycle will guide audiences through a personalized, individual, and epic experience examining the costs of war. Part I – The Quick and the Dead, will move through personal battlefields; guests will come in contact with a multitude of characters–childhood loves, family members, war room generals, soldiers, nurses, and even major religious figures–each character playing their role, intentionally or not, in sending our hero to his destiny as he desperately struggles to be heard. The living and the dead have voices–but Johnny is trapped in between.