The Metal Shop Performance Lab/JunkHeart present

ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE
by Alice Birch
Directed by Alex Mallory

Three generations of women. For each, the chaos of what has come before brings with it a painful legacy.

Alice Birch's Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning play is an intimate exploration of inter-generational trauma, told across three interlinking narratives.

“Odd, arresting and highly original” — The Guardian
“Somewhere between a dream, a nightmare, an art installation and a melodrama.” — TimeOut London

August 12 - 30, 2026
at Redtwist Theatre
1044 W Bryn Mawr Ave
Chicago, IL 60660

Wednesdays through Saturdays at 7: 30PM
Sundays at 3: 30PM

Tickets on sale June 1st.

ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE is presented by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals Corp.
www.concordtheatricals.com

About JunkHeart:
JunkHeart is a new artistic collaboration between Alex Mallory and Tatiana Pavela. JunkHeart seeks to create bigger worlds for people to witness, so they have bigger worlds to exist within.

Junk because it describes how we often make theatre: recorded on voice memos, written on scraps of paper, costumed from the back of our closets and thrift store finds. We collect salvaged wood from the landlord’s garage, borrow furniture from our own living rooms, and assemble a motley crew of people to come together because they can’t envision doing anything else

Heart because art should fracture something open to give people more space. We want our projects to expand audiences’ ideas of humanity and leave them feeling more, connecting more, envisioning more possibility. Can your heart be split open and be put back together slightly changed, with light pouring through the cracks?