TOPSIDE
by THEATRE IN QUARANTINE
Showing in the MAAS Cottage
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Showing in the MAAS Cottage •
A durational feat of digital loop capture performed by Drama League Award-winner Joshua William Gelb
Two soldiers, uncertain of their mission, uncertain of how to survive each other’s company.
Showing in the MAAS Cottage
1320 N. 5th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Monday, Sep 26 @ 7:05 PM
Monday, Sep 26 @ 7:40 PM
Monday, Sep 26 @ 8:15 PM
Tuesday, Sep 27 @ 5:55 PM
Tuesday, Sep 27 @ 6:30 PM
Tuesday, Sep 27 @ 7:05 PM
Tuesday, Sep 27 @ 7:40 PM
Tuesday, Sep 27 @ 8:15 PM
Wednesday, Sep 28 @ 6:55 PM
Wednesday, Sep 28 @ 7:30 PM
Wednesday, Sep 28 @ 8:05 PM
Wednesday, Sep 28 @ 8:40 PM
Wednesday, Sep 28 @ 9:15 PM
Thursday, Sep 29 @ 6:55 PM
Thursday, Sep 29 @ 7:30 PM
Thursday, Sep 29 @ 8:05 PM
Thursday, Sep 29 @ 8:40 PM
Thursday, Sep 29 @ 9:15 PM
Friday, Sep 30 @ 6:55 PM
Friday, Sep 30 @ 7:30 PM
Friday, Sep 30 @ 8:05 PM
Friday, Sep 30 @ 8:40 PM
Friday, Sep 30 @ 9:15 PM
Appropriate for ages 13+
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Theater in Quarantine has developed and livestreamed dozens of visually distinctive, original performances from an eight-square-foot closet in the East Village. Hailed as one of the most imaginative makers of digital performance, this Drama League Award-winning company comes to the Cannonball Festival with a marathon in-person run of Scott R. Sheppard's Topside.
Inspired by the short story "Game" by Donald Barthelme and written expressly for TiQ as one of its earliest livestreams, Topside follows two men trapped in a military-grade bunker, uncertain of their mission, uncertain of how they'll manage to survive each other's company.
Alternately capturing each character in looping sequences, TiQ founder Joshua William Gelb will perform Topside continuously for three hours each night, in a durational feat of digital hybridity.
"Virtuosic... The closet has produced some of the new medium's most imaginative work." - Jess Green, The New York Times ''Makes confinement a virtue, a prompt to imagination.'' - Helen Shaw, New York Magazine
Do to the durational aspect of the production the listed start time is a suggested arrival during which ten minute window you will be invited to enter the performance space.
Performed by Joshua William Gelb
Voiceover by Scott R. Sheppard
Written by Scott R. Sheppard
Inspired by "Game" by Donald Barthelme
Visual Design by You-Shin Chen
Sound Design by Gavin Price
Video Design and Direction by Joshua William Gelb
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About the Artists:
Theatre in Quarantine
Theater in Quarantine is a 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 by Founder/Creative Director Joshua William Gelb, 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 square 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.
With audiences around the globe, 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 four-time New York Times Critic's Pick as well as one of Vulture’s “Top 10 Best Theater Moments of 2020”; and the New York Times' "Best Theater of 2021."
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