Hook & Eye Theater Presents Premiere of SPACE NUNZ OF THE RESCUE MAINFRAME

Hook & Eye Theater, an ensemble of performance makers working at the intersection of collective script writing and play-making, announce the world premiere of Space Nunz of the Rescue Mainframe, October 26- November 13, at The Mark O'Donnell Theater in Downtown Brooklyn.

A blisteringly funny new play, Space Nunz of the Rescue Mainframe explores the vast expanse between the digital self-portraits we offer to the world and the reality of our circumstances. In a distant and unknowable future, two Space Nunz race against the clock to make sense of the posts, pings, and pokes left behind by two families in the early 21st Century. Overwhelmed with data, the Space Nunz must form an analog relationship with the audience as they vote and together attempt to piece together their possible realities from a treasure trove of digital evidence. Their urgent quest for answers becomes frantic, frustrating, collaborative, and flat-out hilarious while working to understand the digital evidence of isolation, desperation, a taboo love affair between the sons of each family, and the class and cultural divides between an Iranian immigrant family and their blue blooded American neighbors. What stories will be pieced together from our modern age and entered into Earth's permanent archives?

A true collaborative effort by the Hook & Eye ensemble, the company developed this work from a seed of an idea rooted in ancient Greek myth, and worked collaboratively to integrate elements of their own perspectives, experiences, and pure imagination. The result is a work that uses chaos, comedy, and suspended reality to call attention to the consequences of our digital gluttony and the ways in which we falsely represent our realities to our public audiences.

 

"Threading the needle of comedy using social commentary takes a steady hand, and it helps to have a spaceship and a room full of talented artists." joke artistic directors Carrie Heitman and Chad Lindsey. Their ten-year partnership has seen the landscape for creation shift and evolve, and they remain committed to amplifying the voices "in the room."

 

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