Sun Oct 6, 7:00 PM - Sun Oct 6, 8:30 PM
170 Tillary St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Community: Downtown Brooklyn
Description
It is 2004. Phaedra is afflicted with longing, filtered through the digital fragmentation of Web 2.0. Her beloved Hippolytus, her stepson, lives on a DSL modem, in a trippy iTunes visualization, in the sounds between the sounds of AOL Instant Messenger.
Event Details
FORKLIFT presents
Hippolytus Defragged
By Sofia Levitsky-Weitz
Directed by Jake Beckhard
Sunday October 6, 7pm
170 Tillary Street, Brooklyn
$10 suggested donation
Find out more at loadingdocktheatre.org/forklift
Space is limited. For tickets please RSVP to loadingdocktheatre@gmail.com
This Phaedra arrives to herself via desk-mount webcam.
Hippolytus Defragged – a verbal twist on Euripides’ “Hippolytus Veiled” – is a new-media piece of ancient Greek theatre that marries the aggressive presence, sincerity and physicality of full-scale Greek verse with disorienting digital art. The result is an escalating dissociation which corrupts both Phaedra and everything around her – but also introduces her to a version of herself no longer shackled by shame.
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Forklift is Loading Dock Theatre's reading and developmental program presenting works in progress by exciting writers and directors, in our space in Brooklyn.
Forklift is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).
Hippolytus Defragged
By Sofia Levitsky-Weitz
Directed by Jake Beckhard
Sunday October 6, 7pm
170 Tillary Street, Brooklyn
$10 suggested donation
Find out more at loadingdocktheatre.org/forklift
Space is limited. For tickets please RSVP to loadingdocktheatre@gmail.com
This Phaedra arrives to herself via desk-mount webcam.
Hippolytus Defragged – a verbal twist on Euripides’ “Hippolytus Veiled” – is a new-media piece of ancient Greek theatre that marries the aggressive presence, sincerity and physicality of full-scale Greek verse with disorienting digital art. The result is an escalating dissociation which corrupts both Phaedra and everything around her – but also introduces her to a version of herself no longer shackled by shame.
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Forklift is Loading Dock Theatre's reading and developmental program presenting works in progress by exciting writers and directors, in our space in Brooklyn.
Forklift is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).