Event: Call Cutta in a Box at the Under the Radar Festival

As part of NY’s Under the Radar Festival, Call Cutta in a Box is an experimental, interactive theater experience that challenges viewers to reconsider the separation between performers and audience members.  The ‘play’ starts with a ringing telephone - which you’re asked to pick up in an unknown office. As the description cryptically explains, you are then directed to a call center agent in Calcutta, while “folders on your computer mysteriously open by themselves, a table moves, and a story unfolds in which Sagnik and his colleagues, but above all you and your city are the actors, the audience, the setting, and the performance.” The performance is a creation of Rimini Apparat, co-produced by Schauspielhaus Zürich, Baltic Circle Helsinki and Helsinki Festival, Camp X Kopenhagen, HAU Berlin, KunstenFestivaldesArts Brüssel, Nationaltheater Mannheim and 104 Paris (in cooperation with the call center Descon Limited in Calcutta). A ticket to the show comes with the key to a room holding the ringing telephone.

Call Cutta in a Box
When: Wednesday, January 7 – Sunday, January 18: 11am-4pm hourly.
Additional performances through Friday, February 27, Monday to Saturday (except Monday, February 16): 11am-4pm hourly.
Where: Goethe-Institut New York, 1014 Fifth Avenue

[via DailyCandy]