Revision - /rəˈviZHən/ an act of revising; a result of revising; a revised edition or form of something.
The Chicago Humanities Festival is turning 30 and we’ll be celebrating all year! Over the past three decades the Festival has brought new ideas, exciting speakers, and compelling programs to Chicago. To celebrate, we’re launching our 30th Anniversary series Re/Vision which will revisit and interpret anew some of the themes, people, and formats from festivals past.
Browse the events calendar for these live programs, and explore some of the big questions we're investigating throughout the series here, through video playlists, presenter Q+A's, and more. We posit that to revise is not just to revisit something, but to see something differently with fresh eyes–both what's already there, and what's missing. Our hope is that over the year you’ll encounter new ideas and perspectives that change how you see yourself, your community, and our world.
Revisiting the Mock Trial
One of our audience's favorite formats from years past is the Mock Trial–a performance imitating a trial that involves audience participants as jurors. With the Museum of Contemporary Art, we presented Please, Continue (Hamlet): a hybrid, interactive performance of a homicide trial in which Chicago actors performed the roles of Gertrude, Ophelia, and Hamlet, and actual members of the judiciary convinced a jury of YOU – the audience members – of Hamlet's guilt or innocence. There were four unique iterations of the performance in spring 2019 and were all fascinating, unique experiences for theater geeks, legal nerds, and literary fans alike.
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