Out With It

Rough House's OUT WITH IT, created and performed by co-artistic director Claire Saxe, tells a playful and lyrical tale about holding things in and letting things go. In the languages of found-object puppetry, clown, and visual poetry, Out With It is a story at once intimate and universal about the balancing act between creating order and embracing wildness.

In the company’s signature “rough-theater" style, the piece is fabricated from found and repurposed materials. A world of objects come to life from a palette of shredded bedsheets, clothes-hanger-wire, and spruced-up cardboard.

Rough House Puppet Arts (Chicago) is on a mission to connect individuals and communities through puppetry-arts, celebrating the weird things that make us unique, and the weirder things that bring us together. Rough House’s work collides puppetry with physical theater, music, visual arts, and an insatiable taste for experimentation.

Claire Saxe (Creator/Performer) is a puppeteer, performer, and theater maker driven by work that stretches forms, genres and expectations. As an independent artist and Co-Artistic Director of Rough House Theater Company her practice interweaves elements of puppetry and physical theater. Recent credits include the U.S. production of Théâtre de l’Entrouvert’s Anywhere (Director) We Missed the Train and Had to Wait as part of Steppenwolf Theater’s LookOut series (Creator & Performer), Rough House’s House of the Exquisite Corpse (Co-Director), Invitation to a Beheading (Co-Creator & Performer), and others. As an actor Claire has performed on the Steppenwolf mainstage (Anne Frank, 2007 Jeff Nominee, Actress in a Principal Role), and in storefronts, on festival stages and in DIY spaces across the U.S. and U.K.