Ever stayed on the phone for hours on end with a costumer service rep… in India? Well now you can make a new transcontinental phone buddy while also realizing your dream of becoming an actor in a new play at the German art center, the Goethe-Institut of New York.
Opening in conjuction with this year’s Under the Radar theater festival, the institute presents a unique “intercontinental phone play” entitled Call Cutta In a Box. Within this one-person (that’s you!) play, you can spend nearly an hour talking on the phone with someone in Calcutta, India, who can magically describe the people roaming the halls of the building across the street. You have the power to take the performance in any direction you please—along with your new friend thousands of miles away. This ultra-modern work of experimental theater was created by Rimini Protokoll, a group known for creating the movement, “Reality Trend,” which has become a recent staple within alternative theater for blurring the lines between fiction and reality in such bold forms.
You’ll have the chance to be the star performer in this “production” until February 27th.
Goethe-Institut of New York, 1014 Fifth Ave.; 212-439-8700; times vary $15
