When: May 3 — May 20, 2018
Where: Koreatown, LA (exact location to be revealed to ticket holders)
Price: $40, with limited $15 tickets availible
Tags: #immersive, #adaptation
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The latest from Ceaseless Fun (Agnosia, Why I Want To Fuck Ronald Reagan) continues their thematic collection “Outline of a Human,” moving into epic territory in a truly unique space.
THEY WHO SAW THE DEEP (TWSTD) is a loose adaptation of the world’s oldest great work of literature: The Epic of Gilgamesh . While the epic poem tells the story of one man’s search for companionship, knowledge, and immortality, TWSTD reimagines the world of this poem as one in which everyone is their own Gilgamesh at the center of their own epic. The production employs elements of literary collage, immersive theater, physical theater, and song to interrogate the individual’s relationship to community, mortality, and legacy.
The version of Gilgamesh we read today has been assembled, retold, deconstructed and processed through multiple languages, over thousands of years, by many poets, and in various historical contexts. TWSTD leans into the pluralistic and fractal features of the epic. It processes an already processed text again, pluralizing the protagonist and asking the audience to consider multiple perspectives and multiple answers to the questions we all ask ourselves.
If everyone is their own Gilgamesh at the center of their own story, how can we build community? How can we conceive of our own mortality? How can we archive our own stories? How can we see the deep ?
For more on Ceaseless Fun check out these stories:
Grief As Fractal Art: ‘Agnosia’ (The NoPro Review)LA’s Ceaseless Fun starts their season off with a duet for onenoproscenium.comCrash Course: A Reagan Obsessed Fever Dream Explodes In LACeaseless Fun’s ‘Why I Want To Fuck Ronald Reagan’ Goes Therenoproscenium.comThe Immersive 5 with Derek Spencer of Ceaseless Fun (Bonus: A NoPro AMA)How he fell into making immersive work, his devising process, and his love of one-on-onesnoproscenium.com
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