Welcome to the train that travels through Nothing.
The Cotillion is Bob Bohemian’s artistic home: a small theater of plays, philosophy, criticism, and imagined worlds. Here, ideas become stories, performances, and other strange arrivals.
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Mr. Bohemian
Philosopher-artist. Playwright. Critic.
Otherwise known as Bob Bohemian, Bob creates theatrical worlds where philosophy becomes play. Joyously generated in Chicago.
A reimagination of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream inside the dreamscape of World of Warcraft.
The Cotillion
A sublime confluence of philosophy and art
The Cotillion is Mr. Bohemian’s artistic home, where philosophy leaves the desk and enters the theater. Plays, criticism, images, and other experiments turn ideas into something that can be seen, heard, laughed at, and lived.
Purple Line
The Mission
To give philosophy artistic form, then let art return the question.
Art isn’t merely decoration. Philosophy isn’t meant to be gatekept in the armchair. At The Cotillion, philosophy gets into costume while art begins asking tough questions. Ideas are given bodies, voices, worlds, and consequences so they can be experienced rather than merely explained.
Selected Works
Your next train will be here soon. Three theatrical lines are waiting down the platform, each traveling in a different direction. Step aboard for dreams, science, the divine, and the philosophical questions that follow them along the way.
Blue Line
A retro-futurist theatrical world of invention, family, science, and the strange consequences of making intelligence useful.
Being, Nothingness, and Everything along the way.
More train lines are always on the way!
Au revoir.
My Philosophy
My philosophy begins with Being and Nothingness. It then travels into inheritance, possibility, freedom, responsibility, the Sublime, and the absurd. I’m interested in how something genuinely new can emerge without pretending it laid the tracks that made its own arrival possible. What happens when truth, absence, or freedom are given more authority than they can bear?
In the theater, those questions step into costume and answer back.
Dr. 2’s Indie Office
Dr. 2 diagnoses Chicago theater through reviews staged as medical examinations. Plays arrive as patients, their symptoms are inspected, and each leaves with a theatrical bill of health.
When was the last time you visited the Doctor?
Yellow Line
Comic celestial worlds where theology, bureaucracy, freedom, and mortal absurdity collide.
Where will you travel next?
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