San Francisco, CA
The Institute for Counterfeit Memory
A Play in a Box
Finally a live play that you can experience in your room, not on Zoom! Tickets go on sale March 17, 2021. Boxes will be delivered to homes April 2-4. The Acme Corporation, Baltimore’s premiere experimental theatre company, has created a new play in a box that you can experience at home. The piece asks us to imagine what we’ve missed over the past year, and to turn our attention to what’s happening in front of us. Z Space is presenting this unique piece by thoughtfully assembling 150 boxes in Z Below and delivering them in person to local audiences’ homes in April 2021. This is a special experience for local audiences in San Francisco and Alameda County (or out-of-county residents willing to pick up their boxes from Z Space), acknowledging both the intimacy and geography of live theater.
Audience Role
Using the supplies delivered in the box, audience members listen to the show and interact with objects, and a mirror, and cue cards on a journey of memory.
Ages: 13 +
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About Z Space
Z Space empowers artistic risk, collaboration, and camaraderie amongst artists, audience, and community in the service of creating, developing, and presenting new work. Operating out of an old can factory in the Mission District of San Francisco, Z Space now activates two performance spaces, an 85-seat black box and a 244-seat main stage, with a warehouse aesthetic and an adventurous edge. Eschewing traditional theater models with fixed seasons and a singular artistic vision, Z Space strives to embrace a multitude of artistic voices through a variety of programs and partnerships. We meet the needs of our communities by providing co-productions and subsidized space, hosting open "salons" to have conversations about the issues facing the broader community, and ensuring that all of our venues and facilities are welcoming and accessible. Some of our regular partners have been: Word for Word (the resident theater company of Z Space since our founding in 1993), piece by piece productions, Youth Speaks, Sean Dorsey Dance, Fresh Meat Festival, 3 Girls Theatre, AXIS Dance, Chitresh Das, and Misfits Cabaret.