Rotate Theatre

Too Fat To Run

A new solo show by Eileen Tull

Friday, April 11, 2025
7:30pm

Pyle Center
702 Langdon St, Madison, WI

Three weeks before the Chicago Marathon, Eileen Tull gets a "concerned" email from a "concerned" acquaintance who is very "concerned" that she, fat as she is, plans on running the marathon. "What are you trying to prove?" they ask.

Rotate Theatre Company, Fat Theatre Project, and UW Women's & Gender Studies Consortium present the Wisconsin premiere of Too Fat To Run on Friday, April 11 at the Pyle Center (702 Langdon St, Madison, WI)! In this funny, thought-provoking 60 minute show, Eileen Tull brings the audience along her marathon journey, skillfully weaving stories touching on sizeism, accessibility, body image, disordered eating, alcoholism, self doubt, self advocacy, and self love. Tull, a Chicago-based actor, educator, and comedian, was recently featured in American Theatre for her work with Fat Theatre Project and is currently touring Too Fat To Run around the country.

Eileen Tull performing. She appears to be running as the audience watches intently.

Access & Accommodations

Entry is free and open to the public. Reserve your free ticket here.

This event is hosted by the 2025 WGSC Conference which offers an Access Information Page.

Please email RotateTheatre@gmail.com or call 608-515-8912 with any questions regarding access or accommodations.

Too Fat To Run is designed for adult audiences. Supervised children are welcome if comfortable with mature themes, humor, and language.

Companion Event

While visiting Madison, Tull will join Rotate Theatre Company for a workshop during the 2025 WGSC Spring Conference: Embodying Feminism on Friday, April 11 at 1:45-2:45 at the Pyle Center. During the workshop, participants have the opportunity to experience short excerpts of theater pieces performed by Rotate Theatre Company and guests, opt in (or out!) of short, accessible, highly-modifiable activities, and engage in discussion with the artists: How do we navigate theater practices that uphold systems of oppression and embrace practices that "Embody Feminism," contributing to larger webs of strategies that build more just futures for theatermakers and the general public? How do the performances in this session (excerpts from Eileen Tull's Too Fat To Run, Brooke Allen's Let's Eat Mary, and Kristin P's Out) use embodiment to help us explore ableism, heterosexism, sizeism, and reproductive agency?

Note: Tull's evening performance is free and open to the public, but the afternoon workshop requires conference registration .

About Rotate Theatre Company

Rotate Theatre Company brings people together to create and celebrate entertaining new and alternative plays, musicals, and other performing arts featuring varied underrepresented perspectives. By engaging audiences in laughter and discussion, embracing practices that enrich the lives of collaborative artists, and incorporating multidirectional learning, Rotate Theatre contributes to larger webs of strategies that build more just futures for professional artists and the general public. Rotate Theatre is a multi-issue, multi-genre theatre company grounded by a passionate ensemble of experienced theatermakers facilitating projects that warmly welcome trained artists, enthusiastic beginners, and new audiences.

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