Philadelphia, PA
Rockaby by Samuel Beckett
A 10-Minute Performance for an Audience of One
This socially-distanced, radically intimate performance takes place between you and a single actor through a closed window of a private home in your choice of three locations across the city. Alone, you arrive at a street corner and are guided to a private residence where a single chair awaits you, facing a window shrouded by blinds. You take your seat, put on headphones, and watch as the blinds slowly rise to reveal a woman inside, swaying in her rocker. Her thoughts, in the form of Beckett’s text, enter directly into your ears, allowing your mind and hers to merge. In EgoPo’s intensely intimate version of this famed avant-garde classic, solo audience members witness a haunting and hypnotic ten-minute journey of birth, death, and isolation.
Audience Role
Audience members experience the show one-on-one and are guests in the character's home.
Ages: 13 +
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About EcoPo Theater
EgoPo Classic Theater revitalizes the great classics of theater and literature through adventurous and physically dynamic stagings that re-awaken the essence of the original work. EgoPo emphasizes a highly physical approach to acting and vocal performance, aiming to create visceral theater that compels the attention and imagination of the audience. Through the innovative use of space and theatrical form we create unforgettable theatrical events that envelop audiences. EgoPo curates ambitious themed seasons which take audiences on in-depth theatrical journeys. Overall, we seek to make theater that is innovative, challenging, and of the highest possible quality. We seek to develop new audiences and broaden the attendance of existing ones. We seek to represent and enhance Philadelphia as a city proud of its cultural risk-taking.