Sometimes, a trip to IKEA can take what feels like a lifetime. You wander in looking for an inexpensive nice frame for your favorite concert poster and end up winding your way through a hundred perfect Scandinavian rooms and dreaming of a bank loan. By the time you stumble out into the harsh light of day, you’ve got a five o’clock shadow and are facing a week’s worth of furniture assembly.

But this post is not quaintly named products or the fun of buying them. Instead it’s an entirely different reason that your visit to the Renton superstore might turn out longer than expected. Over the next few weeks, Printer’s Devil Theater is presenting The IKEA Cycle, 13 scenes written for and performed in various parts of the big blue IKEA store. On Monday and Wednesday night strolls through the store, shoppers may run into a few vignettes that are points on the timeline of a “huge linear story”. The schedule is available online if you’re interested in planning ahead [4culture].

The Seattle Weekly has the whole story. [#]. If you go and find yourself confused by the furniture names, someone on the internet broke the code [m-m].

edit: It seems that I’m late to this party, but maybe there are others who missed this story, too.