New York, NY
Arborlogues: A Botanical Recital Performed for One Tree
You are the performer. A tree is your audience.
ARBORLOGUES: A BOTANICAL RECITAL PERFORMED FOR ONE TREE is a one-person play where you are the performer and a single tree is your audience. ARBORLOGUES has been performed around the world, for a wide variety of trees, and is now being produced at the cell theater in Chelsea. The 15 minute play takes place within a specially built red curtain theater that hangs from the specifically chosen tree. After receiving the bound script from the stage manager you are left alone with your audience. The script leads you through a series of stories, prompts, and actions related to this tree, this land, and yourself.
Audience Role
The ticketholder is the performer and reads from a script. There are no other humans present in the performance space which is obscured from the rest of the world. Only a single tree can hear what you say.
Ages: All ages
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About Ofo Theater
OTHER FORMS OF (OFO) THEATER creates and supports performances that do not fit neatly into the definition of “theatre” and exist below what is deemed commercially viable. We experiment with the theatrical form and rethink what performance is, not just artistically but also structurally. We test out new forms of artistic creation, financing structures, and organizational layouts. Through this we discover ways to make theatre more equitable, just, and fair. Ofo Theater is committed to exceptionally small, experimental, works that cannot scale, performances that eschew historic theatrical space, and shows that only tangentially relate to what we are taught theater is. OFO THEATER was inaugurated in 2024 as a way to categorize the small theatrical and installation work helmed by Dan Daly.