Arachne

Overview

Fresh from its international premiere at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the 2025 Borderlight Fringe Festival, audiences are calling Arachne “relevant, thought-provoking, and laugh-out-loud funny” and “the perfect balance of fantasy, clever humour, and modern interjections to keep its audience hooked from start to finish” (FringeReview).

Greek mythology meets Southern charm in a satirical, interactive reimagining of the story of the first spider. During the launch of her memoir, Athena (the Goddess of Justice and Handicrafts) begins coughing up webs… and they’ll keep coming until she reckons with her past injustices. Britt Anderson weaves Athena and Arachne’s story using multiple characters, court cases, songs, and handmade webs in a “masterful” performance (**** Theatre Weekly)

Arachne contains potentially distressing themes of sexual assault and mild body horror. This show contains consensual audience interaction. Audience recommendation: 18+

 

Britt Anderson is a participant in Philly Fringe Postcards, peer-to-peer review experiment created for the 2025 Fringe by Savannah Reich.

About the Artist

Britt Anderson is a non-binary DIY theatre maker and physical comedy nerd. They were born in South Carolina but have lived in Chicago since 2012, where they have worked with The Artistic Home, Aloft Circus Arts, The Second City Training Center, Theater Unspeakable, and their own company Whisper Theatre. They have toured original performances to Lincoln Center Education, the Kennedy Center, Katapult and Teatrehaus Mitte in Berlin, Germany, and three times to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. They earned their MFA in Devised Performance Practice at Columbia College Chicago/Arthaus Berlin and completed the Professional Circus Training Program at Actors Gymnasium in Evanston, IL. They are one half of the Well-Balanced Dads,a comedy and partner acrobatics duo with Richie Schiraldi. They are obsessed with crochet, their cats Gimli and Dingus, and grotesque femme archetypes.

Whisper Theatre is a Chicago-based collective of artists that supports physical, experimental, and original works of theatre.

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