A night of irreverent holiday comedy, cabaret style. This humorous show, filled with songs, skits, and short monologues, satirizes the parts of the holiday season we like to poke fun at.

created by the company of actors, directed by Connor Berkompas

Strange Mating Calls reimagines Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 film Teorema. The original film centered on an upper-middle class nuclear family in Milan who is visited by a mysterious guest. The guest radically disrupts the family structure only to depart as suddenly as he arrived, leaving the family to confront their own ‘bourgeois’ identities and assumptions.

In a world filled with news of overpopulation, wildfires, political unrest, and environmental degradation a young couple start a dialogue between themselves about having a baby. Should they bring a new life into this world, already burdened by so many human-generated problems? Macmillan brings the angst of an entire generation to the stage in this funny, edgy, fast conversation between two people who deeply care and love each other, as they grapple with questions of family, change, hope, and betrayal. The uncertainties of the 21st century are poignantly expressed through the lines of these two flawed, but very well-meaning and lovable characters, revealing their anxieties about negotiating life in today’s world.