When: June 14–23; Fridays—Sundays
Where: CultureHub, 47 Great Jones Street New York, NY, 10012 United States
Price: $10; parental discretion advised
Tags: #sound, #intimate, #duo, #dome, #ContentAdvisory (see below)
On a foggy night in a cemetery, the waves have washed away the land, claiming all the graves except for two. From these graves, two unlikely companions’ voices emerge amidst the sounds of a military march, a player piano, and the sea. They battle with their pasts and contend with what looms just beyond.
The action of the original production of Balls, written by Paul Foster in 1964, consisted of two ping pong balls floating and swaying like pendulums in and out of a spotlight. Re-imagined in 2019 by CultureHub and the Great Jones Repertory Company, audience members will be laid to rest in their own geodesic dome as an audio-visual installation washes over them.
Balls is part of an initiative between CultureHub and La MaMa to explore works from the La MaMa Archive and re-discover them in a new media context.
The immersive play experience will take approximately 45 minutes and can accommodate two audience members per showing.
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Office facilities provided by Thymele Arts, in Los Angeles, CA.
Contact Level: None
Content Advisories: Mature themes/sexual content (only heard, not seen).
Experience is wheelchair accessible. Audience members will enter the domes through a door way by walking or by wheelchair. Throughout the experience, audience will recline or sit in a lawn chair depending on their personal preference, or can use their own wheelchair.
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