Blog: Consequence Of Sound

Chicago’s Tympanic Theatre adapts Springsteen with Deliver Us From Nowhere

In 1982, Bruce Springsteen released Nebraska . Harrowing and harmonica-driven, lonely and lovely, it's an album that speaks to a loss of innocence, to a painful coming-of-age. Similar to Simon & Garfunkel's anthem "America", the songs that compose Nebraska tell the tales of a blighted Manifest Destiny, of uniquely evocative experiences spent combing the amber countryside for meaning. This is where the Tympanic Theatre Company , based in Chicago, found inspiration. As founder (and CoS Senior Staff Writer) Dan Caffrey states: "A good story is a good story, and [...]