What: NYTW in association with Lucille Lortel Theatre, hosts a revival production of A Sinking Ship and Theater in Quarantine's The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy, originally presented live online in 2020. Based on a short story by Stanislaw Lem, it follows Egon Tichy, alone on a spacecraft, perpetually throwing himself into a vortex to time travel to an earlier version of himself, in order to perform a mechanical fix that requires two people. Chaos ensues as it seems arrogant curmudgeon Egon Tichy can't even get along with himself.
And? This was a goddamn delight. Although I saw a lot of TiQ's work in 2020, I somehow missed this one, and it's a real treat to see him do it in real time, and see how he achieves the various special effects, all within the small white box that is TiQ's performance space. As I texted a friend on my way home after the show, "Josh Gelb is an evil genius." Her reply? "He always has been." First show of the year to earn a guaranteed spot on my end of year Best Of theater list.
1/23/25: Blind Runner
What: St. Ann's Warehouse presents Mehr Theatre Group's production of Amir Reza Koohestani's play about an Iranian distance runner whose wife, a political prisoner, convinces him to help a bilnd woman run a marathon, and from there, make their own political protest.
And? The design and vision of the piece is really marvelous: the two performers intimately mic'd, their running tracks filmed and livestreamed behind them in overlapping, trancelike rhythms. I don't know that I ultimately took away much more than that from the piece, but it's a well-executed and hypnotic hour of theater.
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| Ainaz Azarhoush and Mohammad Reza Hosseinzadeh. Photo by Benjamin Krieg. |
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