World of Wires opened with one of the most thrillingly witty displays of illusion I've ever seen on a stage or a screen — a genuine challenge to one's fixed notion of reality — and then barreled through another 90 minutes of riveting near anarchy. I'm hereby sending a brain transmission out to some Off Broadway/nonprofit Morpheus: Please, reboot this soon. —Scott Brown - New York Magazine
2012 OBIE AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTION!!
SIMULATED CITIES / SIMULATED SYSTEMS PART 3.
WORLD OF WIRES
New play adapted and directed by Jay Scheib after the film "Welt am Draht" by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Screenplay based on the novel “Simulacron-3” by Daniel F. Galouye.
With performances by Sarita Choudhury, Winsome Brown, Mikéah Ernest Jennings, Rosalie Lowe, Jon Morris, Ayesha Ngaujah, Laine Rettmer and Tanya Selvaratnam
Scenic design by Sara Brown, sound design by Anouschka Trocker, video design by Josh Higgason, Lighting design by Josh Higgason.
World of Wires was produced by Tanya Selvaratnam
World of Wires is the final installment of writer and director Jay Scheib’s performance trilogy Simulated Cities/Simulated Systems. Part two, Bellona, Destroyer of Cities, also premiered at The Kitchen, followed by presentations at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and at Maison des Arts Créteil in France. Part one, the Obie Award-winning Untitled Mars (this title may change), premiered at Performance Space 122 in New York City, followed by a presentation at the Hungarian National Theater in Budapest. Available for worldwide touring: May 2012.
This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
PERFORMANCE DATES:
World Premiere: January 6-8, 12-14, 19-21, 2012, The Kitchen, NYC
Institute of Contemporary Art, September 21, 22
KRT Festival, Krakow Poland October 8 and 9, 2012
Lieu Unique, Nantes, France, November 8, 9, 10 at 20h30
Festival D'Automne, (Maison des Arts) Paris, France, November 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 at 20h30
Le Manege, Maubeuge Mons, France, November 20