A Piece of Work at BAM Fisher

Dates: (12/18/2013 - 12/21/2013 )

Theatre:

BAM Fisher

30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn,NY NY 11217

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Phone: 718.636.4100

Tickets: $20.00

Running Time: Approx 1hr 10min

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To sleep. To dream. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, we confront the most fundamental questions of our humanity. But what exactly do we confront when the play is shuffled, reordered, and rewritten by a computer?

In this daring marriage of live acting and artificial intelligence, Obie Award-winning director Annie Dorsen delivers a provocative parsing of Shakespeare’s work. Based on a sophisticated algorithm that generates a new version of the play nightly—words, visuals, lighting, music, and all—A Piece of Work features one actor, alternating between Obie winner Scott Shepherd (Elevator Repair Service’s Gatz, The Wooster Group’s Hamlet) and theater legend Joan MacIntosh, a looming computer screen, and a chorus of synthesized voices channeling this uncanny text, refashioned in the automated image of our digital times.

Cast and Creative team for A Piece of Work at BAM Fisher

Concept and direction by Annie Dorsen
Sound and network design by Grégory Beller
Scenography/Video by Jim Findlay
Lighting design by Bruno Pocheron & Ruth Waldeyer
Systems design and text programming by Mark Hansen and Dylan Fried

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