The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy (Sinking Ship Productions and Theater in Quarantine)
Saturday, November 16 @ 2PM | Donna M. Morris Theater
Tickets $25-$50 Adult, $15 Youth CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS
Space traveler Egon Tichy likes his quiet time.
But when his ship gets hit by a chunk of interstellar detritus, he’s sent careening into a minefield of time vortexes. This slapstick science-fiction adventure propels Sinking Ship and Theater in Quarantine into their most technically ambitious production to date, improbably trapping performer Joshua William Gelb amidst an exponentially expanding cast of one.
This is a live multi-media performance including both a live actor onstage and video overlay.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Sinking Ship Productions (www.sinkingshipproductions.com) a New York-based theater company, is the creative collaboration between Jonathan Levin and Josh Luxenberg. We work with a core group of Associate Artists, combining physical theater, puppetry, music and movement in delightful, strange and unexpected ways. Sinking Ship creates work that is the theatrical version of circumnavigating the globe in a questionably seaworthy vessel: grand and ridiculous, unadvisedly ambitious, and possibly delusional as we sail full tilt to the horizon.
Theater in Quarantine (youtube.com/theaterinquarantine) is an Obie and Drama League Award-winning performance laboratory dedicated to the exploration of the live theatrical experience in the digital space. Established in response to the pandemic, TiQ has developed and live-streamed dozens of visually distinctive, original works to its YouTube channel, working out of a closet in the East Village that’s only 8 sq feet.
Theater in Quarantine merges the live and the digital — embracing 21st century solutions to the question of “what is “theatrical”? Our digital and hybrid programming spans genres and styles, with world premieres of new plays, new musicals, adaptations of classic texts, dance, and site-specific art installations.
The accessibility of the digital form has allowed us to reach audiences around the globe, with our viewership growing from just a handful to thousands. Theater in Quarantine has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, Japan’s NHK Television, and has been profiled in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Within a single year Theater in Quarantine has been a five-time New York Times Critic’s Pick as well as one of Vulture’s “Top 10 Best Theater Moments of 2020” and among the New York Times’ “Best Theater of 2021.”
During the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic Theater in Quarantine was run by Co-Creative Directors Joshua William Gelb and Katie Rose McLaughlin, collaborating remotely with over a hundred collaborators and reaching audiences across the globe. Presenting partners include The Invisible Dog, Theater Mitu, LaMama, CultureHub, New Georges, CulturalDC, A2SF, the Exponential Festival, and NYUSkirball. TiQ continues to create new and exciting digital performances for both in-person and digital audiences.