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Trust is tricky. You enter working relationships and it's unprofessional not to offer it. When you feel your trust challenged, you convince yourself that you're the problem. And some people take advantage of that. Fola is an MFA directing grad student stepping into a mid-year review with their advisor. What happens when you record a professional meeting and you don't tell the other? And what do you do when you record something really incriminating? This is a play about the degradation of trust.

EVANSTON SALT COSTS CLIMBING

by WILL ARBERY, directed by MICAH FIGUEROA

CHICAGO PREMIERE

May 15 - June 14, 2025

Winters keep getting worse in Evanston, IL, where salt truck drivers Peter and Basil battle the ice and snow and pass the time with jokes and stories. But what’s with this creeping sense of dread? Is it because their boss Maiworm has noble visions of new green technology that would make their jobs obsolete? Or is there a more terrifying warning calling out from under these roads? At least they have each other, right?

This upcoming season, FFT has commissioned Gloria Imseih Petrelli  (she/they), a Chicago born and based theatre artist and political organizer whose work is an exploration of their Palestinian identity, community, and joy as a practice. for the fourth year of its new play development program, The Blueprint Commission.

This project is made possible by a generous donation from Michael and Mona Heath.