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In theatrical discussions these days, artists debate digital performance.
Will institutions keep producing online shows?
Or is Zoom destined to be retired, filed alongside techniques like candlelight and dancing bears?
But while conversation about digital rages, another pandemic method trundles quietly along: the installation.
You dont get the same advocacy for installations that you do for digital work.
Still, Ill miss them a little.
Inside the main space, set designer Daniel Soule has made a gauze-curtained maze on a huge warehouse floor.
There are no actors present.
Were ushered to a narrow oblong to hear a scene of Sam at her job.
In this contemplative plot, White and composer Dan Rosatos rock songs act as interludes.
That explains whyDefinitionseems to always be pointing elsewhere its a trailer for the musical to come.
Theres more confidence on that front at the Tank, an OffOff theater complex on 36th Street.
(You-Shin Chen is the visual designer.)
Every chair I sat in looked like it had been stabbed.
In the corner of one jerry-built enclosure, a towering pile covered with black fabric … shifted slightly.
Happily,Samuelfeeds on that haunted-junk-shop vibe.
Director Dara Malina and creative producer B.J.
Who was Dads favorite?
rooms prickle with supernatural dread.
Be warned: The team has worked out how to manipulate the dreaminess incurred by audio drama.
I jumped more than once.
Leaning into the ghostliness of a deserted theater seems to be the way these pieces work best.
But no one stopped you from wandering aroundoutsidethe installation, through the dark and disused theater itself.
If you wanted to, you could even go over and touch the folded-away chairs.
The stage was so still!
And I was so alone!
It was chilling and lovely and mournful and alive.
At the end of the day, installations are haunted houses.
They take place in almost-abandoned places and throb with almost-life.
