What if one day you woke up and the East River was... gone? In its place: a brand new plot of land, ripe for development. Performed with three actors, one printer, and fifteen pounds of pudding, DIRT is an interactive theatre piece by SOUR MILK that invites audiences to reimagine the landscape of NYC. Participants take on characters, campaign to become mayor, and decide how to develop their new neighborhood. Construction is completed in real time using food products as building materials in this collaborative act of urban planning, electioneering, and play. “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
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.