Billy Goat in Et Cetera IX at The Side Project Theatre

The Billy Goat Experiment Theatre Company continues its run of "A Trunk Full of Babies' Breath" which premiered in Chicago's 21st Annual Rhinoceros Theater Festival at Prop Thtr and was performed at TRANSISTOR in Andersonville.

When: Friday April 23 at 8PM and Sunday April 25 at 7PM
Where: at The Side Project Theatre 1439 W Jarvis, Chicago

Admission for one evening is $15; Festival Passes, which allow entry to both programs, are $20. Tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets at www.themilltheatre.org

Billy Goat's "Cabaretta" (Part Cabaret, Part Operetta) "A Trunk Full of Babies' Breath" is based on the true story of Stella Willamson. Described as a "spinster", she lived a quiet life in Gallitzin, PA scrubbing the floors of the Methodist Church and making hoagies for the fireman's benefit year after year. At the time of her death in 1980 at the age of 76, a note was found written by her, that led to the discovery of 5 decomposed infants that she had kept wrapped in newspapers in a trunk in her attic for approximately 50 years.

"The reasons for death were never determined." -Anchorage Daily News, Oct 10, 1980.

This is her mysterious story in song.