Reversal- November 13-23, 2025

Reversal rehearsal

Akiko will be performing her newest show, Reversal, at Naked Stages in Pillsbury House + Theatre. Reversal is an interdisciplinary immersive storytelling piece that unearths the history of the Chicago River’s reversal—an event often celebrated as one of America’s greatest engineering achievements despite its lasting environmental damage. Through poetry, music, movement, collage, and puppetry, Akiko examines how this act—and other monumental events rooted in the same shortsighted, extractive mindset—continue to shape how we live, work, and think in the United States today.