âZoetropeâ Review: And You Thought Your Apartment Was Small?
Exquisite Corpse Companyâs clever choose-your-own-adventure play has a handful of viewers peek in on a Brooklyn couple in really close quarters.
Leana Gardella inside the trailer dressed to look like a tiny apartment in the Exquisite Corpse Companyâs production of âZoetrope.âCredit.Jess Dalene
Zoetrope
NYT Critic s Pick
In this real estate market, Brooklyn agents can find renters for pretty much any apartment, even one in a vacant lot across from a Subway and a Smoothie King at the border of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. One Lilliputian even by New York City standards.
Cost: See event description Description Two people, a fish, a New York City apartment on top of a trailer bed, and you. Exquisite Corpse Company is back with an interactive, immersive, and portable living diorama of 2020. Written by our writers in residence: Leah Barker, Emily Krause, and Elinor T Vanderburg, and co-directed by Porcia Lewis and ECC’s Artistic Director Tess Howsam, Zoetrope will be on the streets, literally, of Brooklyn and beyond with socially distanced seating for a limited and lucky audience, summer 2021. The mission of this project is to use our shared experiences as a nation and as individuals, to create an interactive performance that offers reflective healing and generative dialogue as we continue to process 2020 in 2021. Linking moments of connection and loneliness, with a surrealist twist, this mobile piece presents an accessible (Covid-19 conscious) platform for people across the New York City boroughs and state lines.
Exquisite Corpse Company to Present ZOETROPE Live in Brooklyn This Summer
Zoetrope will be on the streets of Brooklyn and beyond with socially distanced seating for a limited and lucky audience, summer 2021. by BWW News Desk
Exquisite Corpse Company will present the World Premiere of Zoetrope, written by ECC writers-in-residence Elinor T Vanderburg, Leah Barker, and Emily Krause, directed by Porcia Lewis and Tess Howsam. Zoetrope will be on the streets of Brooklyn and beyond with socially distanced seating for a limited and lucky audience, summer 2021. Exact performance dates and venues to be announced shortly.
Two people, a fish, a New York City apartment on top of a trailer bed, and you. Exquisite Corpse Company is back with an interactive, immersive, and portable living diorama of 2020. Over the course of 35 minutes, the audience experiences an interactive, COVID-19 safe, live performance, and plays a role in dictating the way the story plays out. The project aims to explore