World’s smallest theater opens in NYC
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MANY theater owners like to say they offer an intimate show but only one really means it.
That would be Theatre for One — a 4-foot-by-8-foot (1.2m x 2.4m) portable theater that allows one audience member at a time to see one short play performed by a single actor.
“There’s definitely an immediacy that happens within this,” said Tony-winning scenic designer Christine Jones, who conceived and leads the project. “The theater acts as a kind of portal into a human being.”
The theater will be parked in three Manhattan locations for the next two months, offering shows for free. Which play the audience sees is largely the luck of the draw, adding to this unique theatrical event.
Each lucky audience member slips into a section of the theater and waits until a partition rises, revealing a performer who then begins his or her short piece.
This year, new plays were commissioned from Craig Lucas, Will Eno, Lynn Nottage, Jose Rivera, Thomas Bradshaw, Zayd Dohrn and Emily Schwend.
They were asked to write three-minute pieces that used this phrase as a jumping-off point: “I’m not the stranger you think I am.” The works range in theme from a serial killer preying on black men to the death of a mother.
Theatre for One will be parked at the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place from May 18 to May 24, Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan from May 27 to May 31, and Midtown’s Grace Building Plaza from June 2 to June 6.
All three sites are owned and operated by Brookfield Property Partners.
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