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Other Orbits Episode 2 Time Capsule
A digital archive filled with artifacts telling the origin stories of PlaNet.
Other Orbits is a multi-modal serial performance piece running from 2021-2023 with episodes in many different formats, from a radio station to a tabletop role-playing game to a comic book, all telling an epic story of ecological reckoning and cultural survival that will culminate in a live performance in the Spring of 2023. Episode 2: TIME CAPSULE, tells the origin stories of PlaNet: the short-lived earthling colony that rose and fell about 10,000 years before our story begins, the early days of the Walroosh and their evolution, and the opening gambit of the planetary council. Episode 2: TIME CAPSULE not only shines a light on PlaNet’s mixed-bag beginnings, but also invites the contemporary citizens of PlaNet to reckon with those beginnings, take a good hard look about themselves, and reconsider what the past and present have to do with each other. Honorary Producers for OTHER ORBITS Episode 2: Beth (and Woody) Wright
Audience Role
An Applied Mechanics show invites you into a world in action. You are in charge of your own experience: you can look at one thing, while listening to another. You can craft your own juxtapositions of sound and image. You can edit together your own journey through this world, this story, this full and active community. An Applied Mechanics show surrounds you, draws your attention to corners, offers you details that have been carefully tended, and brings you into relationship with characters who never exit, because it takes all their stories to make the world. – Rebecca Wright (director)
Ages: All ages
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About Applied Mechanics
Applied Mechanics is a visionary artists’ collective making plays in Philadelphia. Our art is an exercise in empathy and transformation. We believe that art can be a powerful force in the struggle against nationalism, fascism, misogyny, racism, xenophobia, and bigotry. The art we make is part of that fight.