This Is Not A Theatre Company Has An App For That
When: Anytime (Self-Scheduled)
Where: The L, N, or 7 lines in New York City
Price: $2.99
Tags: #podplay, #mobile, #app, #subway
This Is Not A Theatre Company, the creators of Ferry Play, are back with an all new set of transportation based podplays. A great way to add a little immersive action to your commute or evening out and about.
Subway Plays are conceived and directed by Erin B. Mee; with sound designed by Natalie Johnsonius Neubert; and scripts by Jenny Lyn Bader (The International Local: 7), Jessie Bear (Damper Felts: N), and Colin Waitt (Spare Some Change: L).
Full Press Release Follows
August 1, 2017
Site-Specific Audio Play for the New York City Subway!
In This is Not a Theatre Company’s Subway Plays, audiences ride the L, N, and 7 trains while listening to “Subway Plays,” a trilogy of site-specific audio plays that are downloaded to your smart phone via a $2.99 app from Apple or Android. Audiences mix the recorded dialogue with the sights, smells and sounds of the actual subway, and consider their role in the live performance event that is the Big Apple.
Subway Plays are self-scheduled: audiences can ride the L, N, or 7 lines late at night, early in the morning, or any time in between — they choose the day and time, which then affects the experience they have. Audiences can start in Manhattan and go to Brooklyn and Queens for Act 1, or start in Brooklyn or Queens — in which case Act 1 ends rather than begins in Manhattan. Subway Plays are in English with Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin, Russian, Greek, Hungarian, and French.
This Is Not A Theatre Company’s Ferry Play, an audio play for the Staten Island Ferry, was heralded as “spirited, meditative…mesmerizing” by The New York Times. Podplays are an emerging genre of theatre that take advantage of mobile technology to create site-specific audio-based theatrical experiences. Because of its price ($1.99 for Ferry Play, and $2.99 for the trilogy of Sunway Plays) TCG Circle says, “Ferry Play has reached the kind of diverse audiences that other theaters dream about.” American Theatre Magazine adds, “…Another perk of a podplay is that the show goes on in perpetuity.”
Subway Plays are conceived and directed by Erin B. Mee; with sound designed by Natalie Johnsonius Neubert; and scripts by Jenny Lyn Bader (The International Local: 7), Jessie Bear (Damper Felts: N), and Colin Waitt (Spare Some Change: L).
Subway Plays features cast members Mariana Cardenas, Tina Chen, Yadira Correa, Nick Fondulis, Lindsley Howard, Toussaint Jeanlouis, Anouschka Joshi, Jed Peterson, Leila Satyanath-Mee, Xiaozhou Xu, Caitlin Naseema Cassidy, Ashley Wren Collins, Andrea Egerton, Greg Engbrecht, Anna Frankl-Duval, Caitlin Goldie, Niki Hatzidis, Amir Khafagy, Alessandra Nahodil, Beth Dodye Bass, Adam Boncz, Kaylin Lee Clinton, Emily Cordes, A.J. Ditty, Christopher Gergis, Nicole Gentile, Emily Krause, Kineta Kunutu, Athena Lamarre, Caiti Lattimer, Hayward Leach, Cristina Pitter, Tressa Preston, Gianmarco Soresi, Russell Sperberg, Matt Stango, Jennifer Tsay, Colin Waitt, Ratnesh Dubey, and Sarah M. White.
Download the Apple app:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/subway-plays/id1222342752?mt=8
Download the Amazon app:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0748MP4RK
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