New York, NY
DIRT
The interactive game where YOU reshape your city
What if one day you woke up and the East River had vanished, leaving behind a new plot of land ripe for development? DIRT, the latest interactive theatre piece by SOUR MILK (TRAFFIC, FEAST), invites you to play a crucial role in reimagining New York City. As an audience member, you'll take on a unique character and campaign to become mayor, making crucial decisions about how to develop this newfound territory. What will your new neighborhood look like? “We watched as apple slices became residential space, cookies turned into commercial zoning, and vegetables represented manufacturing. Public housing was erected with graham crackers. Streetlights were cheese balls on toothpicks. Despite this whimsical landscape, the show asks some big questions about the city and the decisions that make it what it is, for better and worse.” - Nicole Serratore, American Theatre Experience DIRT at The Tank this June. Be part of a show where your decisions matter and every vote counts. Time to dig in and reshape your city!
Audience Role
Audience members are citizens of New York City. They are assigned characters at the top of the show and vote on choices using their phones. Some audience members may choose to speak to their fellow citizens or run for office. However, this is not mandatory.
Ages: 13 +
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About Sour Milk Collective
SOUR MILK is Christina Tang, Anna Jastrzembski, and Carsen Joenk. CT, AJ, and CJ have been collaborating on hybrid live and digital works since the great pause of 2020. Their collaboration is based on experiments in mediated liveness, digital nostalgia, new pathways for human-human connection, and a grand punkin’ good time. TRAFFIC, a live-digital hybrid theatrical game, premiered in Exponential Festival 2022. Their hypertext fiction game Feast was presented at The Tank in March 2022.