House of Butterflies

In the 1920s, the solution to a cheaper better operating car was the invention of leaded gasoline.  What happens to workers on the production line of this highly toxic invention?  Franklin Mann is an immigrant worker in the factory who takes on new dangerous work in order to better provide for his close-knit family.  What happens to him  when chilling strange visits from Lead in the form of hallucinations lead backwards though time?  The audience travels the same journey as Mann while discovering just to what extent we are held to sanity by familial ties.  House of Butterflies explores the cost of innovation on society through the lens of one family’s disintegration.

Production History

The play has had to directed readings:

Loyola University Chicago

Seattle University