THEATER IN QUARANTINE
How can theater practitioners artfully push against these new boundaries of social distance to embrace the limitations of remoteness? Is it possible to make theater in a digital arena that doesn't sacrifice the act of collaboration or our shared theatrical values: feats of liveness, collective experience, ephemeralness, the protean empty space...
Theater in Quarantine is an Obie and Drama League Award winning performance laboratory dedicated to the exploration of the live theatrical experience in the digital space. TiQ has live-streamed dozens of visually distinctive, original works to its YouTube channel, working out of a closet in the East Village that's only 8 sq feet. Our digital and hybrid programming spans genres and styles, with world premieres of new plays, new musicals, adaptations of classic texts, dance, and site-specific art installations. The work has been called "Virtuosic" by Jesse Green in the New York Times while Helen Shaw in Vulture wrote that the closet “makes confinement a virtue, a prompt to imagination.” TiQ has been presented by The Invisible Dog, New Georges, Theater Mitu, CulturalDC, Ann Arbor Summer Festival, The New York Public Library, and was a 2021 artist in residence at LaMama and CultureHub's Experiments in Digital Storytelling. Subscribe on my youtube channel for updates and more videos!
Theater in Quarantine is free to view online, but donations are graciously accepted at this Fractured Atlas Page. https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/jv-squad