Outside Cowboy Neal, Ian Hammond works as a playwright and composer in Chicago’s theater scene, having music directed sketch comedy shows at The Second City and sound designed an experimental production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. His new play, Hornets, debuts May 21st at the Greenhouse Theater Center.
What does it mean when a box of hornets is preferable to the perverse power that institutions hold over you? A story interrogating the alienation, isolation, and irrationality of working life, Hornets stages labor as a surreal and dreamlike odyssey, an odyssey that lives in the heart of anyone confronting an increasingly illogical world. Peer into the mysterious and absurd, the horrifying and provoking. Undetached from the world we inhabit, this multi-media play presents a tale of resilience, courage, and the everlasting battle between optimism and pessimism.
