November 25th – December 18th at Annex Theater

1-800-MICE is a sprawling and surreal soap opera concerning the fate of Volcano Park, a “seething interspecies metropolis” of the nearish-future populated by humans, evolved animals, and a ruling caste of sentient trees. Volcano Park is in peril – plagued by authoritarian cops, a violent gang of dandy criminals peddling designer drugs and mass oblivion, and a blossoming class-war that threatens to unravel the already-tenuous threads holding the city together. To make matters worse, a mysterious meteor is now racing toward earth.

Despite the economic and social despair taking over the city, business at an elite courier service called 1-800-MICE continues to boom at a seemingly unstoppable rate. That is, until an act of terrorism rips through their corporate headquarters, colliding the worlds of Groomfiend, a gentle-souled employee of 1-800-MICE; Officer Nabb, a careerist cop with anger management issues; and Peace Punk, a confused bohemian in search of his own existential truths. These everymen topple headfirst into a web of political intrigue and cultural warfare fueled by unhinged psyches, fetishistic eroticism, corporate paranoia, cyber saturation, and new age quackery led by a slew of villainous interests – Aunty Lakeford, The Great Partaker, and the LA Shogun, former bandmates competing for their immortalities and cultural dominance, and Doctor Vial, a cult leader and drug kingpin of the arboreal drug known as Creosote.

These megalomaniacs threaten to bring about the apocalypse of Volcano Park and existence as we know it. Can this diseased city be saved before its mass annihilation? Will anyone be saved?

Directed by Sarah Jacklin*
Adapted by Carly J. Bales and Sarah Jacklin* from the comic novel of Matthew Thurber
Featuring Jacob Zabawa, Nina Mae, Dave Iden*, Carly J. Bales, Alex Scally, Martin Kasey, Philip Rogers, and Suzie Doogan
*Company Members

1-800-MICE opens on Black Friday, November 25th, at 8PM
Thursdays - Sundays, 8PM, November 25th - December 18th
Annex Theater | 219 Park Avenue, Baltimore, MD

Tickets
$15, $7 for Student or EBT card holders