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Sinking Ship Productions + Theater in Quarantine
The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy [redux]
Presented by New York Theatre Workshop in association with the Lucille Lortel Theatre
photos: Josh Luxenberg, Sinking Ship, and Theater in Quarantine
“A truly impossible, impressive piece. Work like The 7th Voyage makes confinement a virtue, a prompt to imagination.” – New York Magazine
Trapped in a time loop, space traveler Egon Tichy faces his own worst enemy: himself. And he’s multiplying. In this inventive fusion of live performance and digital sleight-of-hand, a single performer builds a cinematic sci-fi comedy in real time, transforming an 8’x4′ white box into a cosmic madhouse. The acclaimed physical theater company Sinking Ship and the Obie Award-winning Theater in Quarantine have reimagined their “virtuosic” (Jesse Green, NYT Critic’s Pick) early pandemic streaming hit The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy as a mind-bending in-person experience—a slapstick adventure and poignant meditation on the tug-of-war between the versions of ourselves we can never escape.
Note: This production contains mild adult language and situations, but is appropriate for audiences of all ages.
SCHEDULE
Schedule to be announced
In person and live-streamed tickets available.
Run time: 50 minutes
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CREDITS
Director / Co-Creator: Jonathan Levin
Playwright / Co-Creator: Joshua Luxenberg
Performer / Co-Creator: Joshua William Gelb
Based on the Story By: Stanislaw Lem
Set & Costume Design: Peiyi Wong
Lighting Design: Marika Kent
Video Design: Jesse Garrison
Original Music and Sound Design: M. Florian Staab
End Credits Music performed by Emily Hope Price
Additional Voices: Esme Rosenberg, Fayette Louise Jared & D.M.J.
Production Manager and Line Producer: Carly Levin
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Theater in Quarantine is an Obie and Drama League Award-winning digital performance laboratory. Established in response to the pandemic by director, performer, and creative technologist Joshua William Gelb, TiQ has live-streamed dozens of visually distinctive, original works to its YouTube channel, performing out of a closet in the East Village measuring only 8 sq feet. Embracing 21st century solutions to the question “what is “theatrical” TiQ has become a leading practitioner in the emerging field of live-stream digital performance. TiQ has been presented by NYUSkirball, Colgate University, The Invisible Dog, New Georges, A2SF, Theater Mitu, La Mama, CultureHub, UMD, Exponential, CulturalDC, and has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, Japan’s NHK TV, The New Yorker, been a five-time NYTimes Critic’s Pick as well as one of Vulture’s “Top 10 Best Theater Moments of 2020” and the Times‘ “Best Theater of 2021.” TiQ’s initial pandemic season ran from 2020-2022 under the co-creative direction of Joshua William Gelb and Katie Rose McLaughlin.
Sinking Ship Productions, the creative collaboration between Jonathan Levin and Josh Luxenberg, creates original physical, visual theater that asks “What does it mean to be a human in this world?” The work, like the answer to that simple question, is complex, absurd, existential, ephemeral, surreal, surprising, funny, poetic, and strange, grounded in emotional storytelling, the tactile familiarity of objects, and futile humor of being alive. Sinking Ship works with a core group of Associate Artists, combining physical theater, puppetry, music and movement. Productions have grappled with concepts such as the creation and destruction of the universe as imagined by science fiction writers, how a man’s search for connection could ultimately lead to complete isolation, and the limits of human understanding through the search for extra dimensions of space in theoretical physics. Founded in 2008, Sinking Ship’s original works include Cassandra, an Agony, a modern telling of the myth of Cassandra (commissioned by the Getty Museum in L.A.), A Hunger Artist, based on the story by Franz Kafka (premiere at Connelly Theater, 2017, nominated for Drama Desk Awards; UK premiere at Edinburgh Fringe, 2017), Powerhouse, about the idiosyncratic composer Raymond Scott (New Ohio Theatre, O’Neill Playwrights Conference Finalist; New York Times Critic’s Pick), there will come soft rains, a triptych of science fiction stories (FringeNYC, extended at Barrow Street Theater, 2008).
CREATION + FUNDING
Presented by New York Theatre Workshop in association with the Lucille Lortel Theatre. A Sinking Ship and Theater in Quarantine production.
