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A THOUSAND WAYS (Part Two): An Encounter
April 22–May 2, 2021, various times
Location: Walker Art Center
$25 ($20 Walker members)
Tickets on sale March 18, 11 am
This spring, The Walker Art Center presents New York-based theater company 600 Highwaymen’s A THOUSAND WAYS, a new triptych work that offers enthralling social interactions that bring us out of isolation and toward togetherness.
Guided by a score of instructions, questions, and prompts, people who have never met before build performances for one another. The resulting experiences explore the line between strangeness and kinship, distance and proximity. With A THOUSAND WAYS, Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone of 600 Highwaymen have created a quietly radical, deeply humanistic response to our current COVID-19 reality. After experiencing Part One of the work, Laura Collins-Hughes wrote in The New York Times that it “achieves more goals of theater—telling stories, triggering imagination, nurturing empathy, fostering connection—than nearly any other show I have experienced since pre-pandemic days.”
In early March, the Walker presented a sold-out, two-week run of A THOUSAND WAYS (Part One): A Phone Call, which took place entirely over the phone. From April 22-May 2, A THOUSAND WAYS (Part Two): An Encounter, will take place onsite at the Walker, with rigorous COVID-19 safety protocols in place. As in Part One, each performances will convene two participants at a time for structured, 60-minute engagements. This time, (new) pairs of participants come together in-person. Seated at a table, separated by plexiglass, they follow prompts on a stack of notecards, performing for no audience but each other.
As each part of A THOUSAND WAYS is a self-contained work, participants can experience Part Two without having attended Part One.
You and a stranger meet on opposite ends of a table, separated by a pane of glass. Using a set of notecards, a simple exercise of working together becomes an invitation to expand how you imagine one another. Total runtime: 45–60 minutes. Recommended for ages 16+.
Please read the Important Information section of the event record for more details about what audience members can expect when they purchase tickets for Part Two: An Encounter, including the COVID-19 safety protocols in place for this event. |
