FIGMENT PROJECT -- YOU AGAIN??
Hand & Eye Theater is currently working on developing an interactive, audience-directed short play as an entry in this summer's Figment Project entitled "YOU AGAIN??"
"Utilizing one of Governors Island's unique spaces, members of Hand & Eye have created an original piece of interactive theater. The audience will control and direct the action and enjoy watching the performers jump from decade to decade as the same scene unfolds in different eras. Themes of communication and public life will blend with comedy and improv whether the story is told on a cell phone, over telegraph, or on papyrus."
Held on Governors Island in the Hudson River between Manhattan and Brooklyn, the Figment Project is in it's fifth year. From their website:
"FIGMENT is a forum for the creation and display of participatory and interactive art by emerging artists across disciplines. FIGMENT began in July 2007 as a free, one-day participatory arts event on Governors Island in New York Harbor with over 2,600 participants. Since then, FIGMENT has grown significantly each year?in number of projects, duration, participants, volunteers, fundraising capability, exhibitions, locations, overall level of commitment and participation, and public support."
Once accepted, our piece will show multiple times daily from June 10 through June 12 for thousands of audience members/art lovers somewhere on the green hills and historic buildings of one of the city's newest public spaces!
UNLAWFUL GATHERINGS
Set in a dead woman's apartment in Marble Hill Unlawful Gatherings unpacks the story of Katja, an immigrant, a mother, a revolutionary, a hoarder. The story is told by those she hardly knew, the young inhabitants of her building, as they dig through the detritus of a life unobserved.
The actors share the responsibility of playing all the characters that populate Katja's story, and most of the scenery too.
