The 2024 Logan Festival of Solo Performance

The Logan Festival of Solo Performance 

July 18-28, 2024

This one-of-a-kind festival presents national, award-winning solo performers for two weeks of
outstanding performances. The 2024 festival will feature Fly Me to the Sun, written and
performed by Brian Quijada, directed by Raymond O. Caldwell; Too Fat for China, written
and performed by Phoebe Potts; and GUAC, written and performed by Manuel Oliver,
directed by Michael Cotey.

Each performance runs about 60 minutes. The Full Festival Schedule is below.

Fly Me to the Sun
Written and Performed by Brian Quijada
Directed by Raymond O. Caldwell

Following a tragedy in El Salvador, Abuela Julia moves in with her family in a Chicago suburb. Her grandson, BQ, learns about America through his grandmother’s eyes while also teaching her to enjoy simple pleasures. Told in the style of a late-night talk show with Julia as a special guest (in the form of a puppet), Quijada weaves a beautiful story about the moments that move us and what calls us home. 

Too Fat for China
Written and Performed by Phoebe Potts

The story follows Phoebe Potts, a self-described comic storyteller and professional Jew, as she tries, fails and eventually succeeds to adopt a baby.  After a US adoption goes horribly wrong, Potts finds herself surprised, disgusted and ultimately resigned to the role she plays as a middle-class white lady in the business of adopting babies in the US and internationally. Potts’ tragi-comic journey is about looking for more— more love, more life and more family and will do anything to get it, including having her morals and values fold in on themselves.

GUAC
Written and Performed by Manuel Oliver
Directed by Michael Cotey

What do you do when you lose a son? Take it from Manuel Oliver, the father of Parkland shooting victim Joaquin Oliver, you have to do what you do best. Fearless, funny, and pulling zero punches, GUAC is a one-man tour-de-force theatrical experience about a father turned activist, his undying love for his son, and the story of an immigrant family in search of the American Dream only instead to be confronted by a uniquely American Nightmare.

FULL FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

July 18
Fly Me to the Sun at 7:30pm

July 19
Too Fat for China at 7:30pm

July 20
Too Fat for China at 2:00pm
GUAC at 5:00pm
Fly Me to the Sun at 8:00pm

July 21
Too Fat for China at 2:00pm
GUAC at 5:00pm
Fly Me to the Sun at 8:00pm

July 23
Fly Me to the Sun at 7:30pm

July 24
Too Fat for China at 7:30pm

July 25
GUAC at 7:30pm

July 26
GUAC at 7:30pm

July 27
GUAC at 2:00pm
Fly Me to the Sun at 5:00pm
Too Fat for China at 8:00pm

July 28
Too Fat for China at 2:00pm
GUAC at 5:00pm
Fly Me to the Sun at 8:00pm