we need your listening
New Ohio Theatre Ice Factory
An empty theater lit by glowing blue screens. Phone calls after dark. Spinning confessionals. In a shifting theatrical landscape, individual audience members enter a dim space between digital and analog reality and are taken through a series of intimate, one-on-one exchanges with performers - discovering and re-discovering the act of listening as radical engagement.
New Ohio Theatre’s Ice Factory Festival — July 2020.
Created by Velani Dibba, Ilana Khanin, Elizagrace Madrone, Stephen Charles Smith
together with the ensemble: Hilary Asare, Alex Bartner, ChiWen Chang, Sam Gonzalez, Alice Gorelick, Julia Greer, Nile Assata Harris, Annie Hoeg, Sam Im, Bri Woods
“The show was an experiment in de-glossing video production. How to make Zoom feel fresh again after all these months? By roughing up its surface. In facing screens at each other, like two mirrors in a mise en abyme, the team had distressed the video into something new.”