Richard Termine
As a runner who lives in a populous city, I’m used to getting stuck behind someone dragging their suitcase along the sidewalk. I’m all-too familiar with having to bob around food carts and weave through people standing in line to order. And I’ve developed cat-like reflexes to dodge rats, both dead and very much alive.
So when all these things happened within the first few minutes of
Endure: Run Woman Show, an immersive theater performance in New York City’s Central Park, I knew it would be an authentic experience.
I didn’t know that I’d be left standing, in the middle of the park, with tears falling down my cheeks at the end of it.
Theater is in the streets of New York, if you listen
The Visitation is among recent outdoor theater works intended to be experienced on your feet and through headphones. Recent audio and walking tours provide a gentle return to spectatorship while also revealing overlooked corners of the city. Daniel Efram via The New York Times.
by Alexis Soloski
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- It is so easy to forget: that native footpaths predated avenues, that streams surged where subways now rattle, that deer and rabbits used to bound underfoot at every grimy crosswalk. And here is another thing we may have forgotten during this past strange year: what it feels like to constitute an audience.