Image by Alysha Seriani

The Chains is a play written in the second-person singular—a performance in the shape of a personality test. Its questions survey three teenagers in Toronto at the opening of the 21st century: love, despair, the ethics of violence, Sophocles’s Antigone, Mike Harris’s “Common-Sense Revolution,” and the great lacuna of the War on Terror.

As a member of the audience, you are a test-taker: you read the multiple-choice questions, circle the answers that are most correct, and then find out which character you are. The questions are all about you, so answering is easy—assuming, that is, that you know who you are, what you believe, and what makes different from everyone else.

Writing and Performance: Evan Webber, in collaboration with Ame Henderson and Fan Wu
Stage Design: Sherri Hay
Graphic Design: Jeremy McCormick
Sound: Matt Smith
Production Management: Dylan Tate-Howarth
Production: Evan Webber and Public Recordings