The Irresistible
Immersive Gallery
132 Bedford Ave
NY
40.71588013481121
-73.95965180227876
Description
The Irresistible, directed by Caleb Hammond, adapted from Ibsen and Euripides, in its world premiere. Fridays and Saturdays at 7pm and 9pm April 10th -26th at Immersive Gallery, 132 Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Tickets $15. Performances at 7pm and 9pm Bar open from 6pm to 12am.The Irresistible is a completely immersive theatrical experience. Audience members are free to explore the entire playing space and have a drink at the bar while taking in the performance and live atmospheric punk music.The audience is enveloped in a collision of two classic plays: Ibsen’s psychologically thrilling Hedda Gabler and The Bacchae, Euripides’ riveting drama of ecstasy and murder. The two worlds interweave, yielding a layered, captivating, expansive drama of the human condition. Spectators are encouraged to take advantage of malleable perspectives - surveying, through translucent live camera feeds, performers in real space. As they move through the environment, shifting their focus from scene to scene, they can key in on every aspect of the production, creating their own personalized viewpoint.History crashes in from all directions and the location of that cataclysm is the body of Hedda, as she searches for an escape route out of the suffocating constraints of the modern western world. Dionysus brings to Thebes an euphoric erotic frenzy that suggests an alternate path - but we are headed at breakneck speed to a bloody conclusion. Live cameras mix with projected light, creating a living installation artwork through which the audience wanders. The cameras and projection surfaces act as dynamic mirrors: reflecting, fragmenting, distorting and repositioning the performers and the environment. The live actors mix with this imagery in a seamless style through which themes of freedom and control, feminine and masculine, wildness and society, and reality and illusion are explored and exploded.
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Category
Performances
Tickets
General Admission
15.0
USD
1200