FERRY PLAY Set for FringeNYC

This Is Not A Theatre Company's Ferry Play invites audiences to participate in the site-specific, sensory experience of a smartphone play for the Staten Island Ferry.

As the ferry sets sail, audience members put their earbuds in place and listen to the recorded production in which every surrounding sight, smell and sound plays a supporting role in the experience. Ghosts from the ferry's past mingle with voices from its present, leaving spectators to consider their role in the live performance event that is the Big Apple. Ferry Play is featured in the 2015 New York International Fringe Festival! "It is an experience that encourages the listener to see a familiar part of the world in a whole new way," says Michael Niederman of New York Theatre Review.

Download Ferry Play to your smart phone for $1.99 from the Apple or Android app stores. The Staten Island Ferry is free and departs every 15 minutes from Whitehall Terminal. Enjoy this New York International Fringe Festival play for $1.99

Ferry Play is a self-scheduled performance: spectators can ride the ferry late at night, early in the morning, or any time in between - they choose the day and time, which then affects the experience they have. Act 1 takes place on the ride from Manhattan to Staten Island; Act 2 takes place on the ride from Staten Island to Manhattan. Smarphone plays are an emerging genre of theatre that take advantage of mobile technology to create site-specific audio-based theatrical experiences.

Ferry Play is helmed by the dynamic female duo of director Erin B. Mee and playwright Jessie Bear. Mee and Bear's last collaboration on A Serious Banquet was heralded by Show Business Weekly as a "profound immersive theatrical experience where performance and life intertwine effortlessly... collaborators Jessie Bear and Erin Mee are paving the way to a profound immersive theatrical experience where performance and life intertwine effortlessly. Let them begin again, and again, and again."

Ferry Play features cast members Tom Nelis, J. Stephen Brantley, Stephen Wagener Bennett, Lily Narbonne, Caitlin Goldie, Gabriella Agape, Leila Satyanath-Mee, Mirelly Vargas, Emily Cordes, Clara Pagone, Ali Kennedy Scott, Ratnesh Dubey, Isabel Bregenzer, Lindsay Bregenzer, Daniel Leeman Smith.