NYU/TSOA/Drama Department Experimental Theatre Wing Presents:
Texterritory: An American Classic
Based on: Mark Twain’s The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson
Director: Sheron Wray
Technology Director: Fleeta Siegel
American Classic is an interactive Physical Theatre piece where you’ll be influencing the action through your cell phone, bring it - keep it switched on and see the journey unfold.
Take the 19th century Mark Twain novel The Tragedy of Puddn’head Wilson with its satirical, ironic and fateful characters combined with Sheron Wray’s integrated approach to live theatre informed by jazz improvisation where the audience through the technology become interlaced as a protagonist in the unfolding drama.
Based on Texterritory’s longstanding partnership between Sheron Wray and Fleeta Siegel, this collaboration is with the multi disciplined Actors from the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU and animations from alumni and current students of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program [Fleeta graduated in 1999].
Shows are 7:30 PM Tuesday [22 April] to Saturday [26 April] with an additional 1:30 PM Matinee on Saturday. Frederick Loewe Theatre, 2nd floor. 721 Broadway @ Waverly Place
Free admission, reservations are required: 212-998-1TIX (1849)
Standard text messaging rates will apply.
Texterritory is an experimental dance/theatre improvisation that uses specially commissioned mobile phone technology to allow an audience to interact with and shape the stage performance. They become characters in the action and co-authors of the play, shaping the course of the drama, and forging a deep emotional connection to the piece. Through a London audience interacting with London characters, the piece becomes a conversation about London itself. You don’t need to bring anything other than a willingness to engage in new ways of telling stories – and a mobile phone.
With: Claire Spence
Who recently appeared as Carmel Duncan in BBC’s Doctors. This is her 2nd outing with Sheron Wray and Texterritory, the first being with the BA (British Association for the Advancement of Science); Claire is very excited to be part of the team again. Theatre credits include: Three Sisters, The Maids; Road, Find Me, Total Eclipse, Kept Their Humanity (World Premiere), Measure for Measure, The Love of the Nightingale, Oedipus: the Untold Story; The Glass Menagerie, Uncle Vanya.
Writing by: Pete Lawson
Born in Malawi, Pete grew up in Birmingham, and graduated from Sheffield University with a First Class degree in English Literature. After working in London, Paris, Moscow and Romania, Pete co-founded The Steam Factory, for whom he wrote his first two plays – the award-nominated Traffic Hearts, and Telephone Belles – before becoming Arts Council Writer in Residence for Gay Sweatshop. Theatre since includes: Burning Houses and Happenstance [Chelsea Theatre/Oberon Books]; (im)patience [Haymarket, Basingstoke]; In Bed With Magritte [Royal National Theatre Studio]; Telling Tales, Sssh! and swanflight [all Nottingham Playhouse]; People Like Us, Whatever, and All Shook Up [all national tours by Pyramid Theatre]; The Impostor and Space [Plymouth Theatre Royal]; The Government Inspector [Bill Kenwright]; No Limits and King Stanley [Hampstead Theatre]. For BBC Radio 4, he has written the comedy Melt, and the afternoon play The Deep End.
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TBT utilises mobile technology to enhance and garner user feedback, LIVE! Whether your in a performance theatre space or a closed hall style presentation; if there is mobile telephony coverage, then Texterritory Business Theatre can deliver. Past performances have taked us to Munich- Germany, Bucharest-Romania and Polverigi- Italy- as well as Trafalgar Square and The Place Theatre, London.
So, no matter your language or your audience, if you want to augment your performance with user generated feedback, conact us:
info [at] texterritory.com
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