THIS TAKES PLACE CLOSE BY
“thingNY’s latest production This Takes Place Close By has resurrected that sound world with a stunningly effective mélange of singing, acting, electronics, and extended vocal techniques, bringing its audience poignantly back to the exigencies and devastation of the flood...
Scene by scene, I was consistently caught up in a conviction that I have rarely, if ever, seen an encyclopedic array of experimental effects so intimately linked with their expressive potential.”
Time Out New York Critics’ Pick
“...provocative, often hilarious...
The six-piece ensemble lead the audience from one set to another, creating a surround-sound atmosphere, voices and instruments leaping unexpectedly from the shadows. The live electroacoustic score – a pulsing, rather horizontal, minimalistic theme and variations – is gripping and often reaches a white-knuckle intensity, and the distance between the performers has no effect on how tightly they play it.”
Written and Performed by thingNY
Director: Ashley Tata
Scenic: Jesse Greenberg
Video: Brad Peterson
Lighting: Abigail Hoke-Brady
Sound: Daniel Neumann
Performers/Composers: Gelsey Bell, Andrew Livingston, Erin Rogers, Paul Pinto, Dave Ruder, Jeffrey Young
Presented at the Knockdown Center, Ridgewood, Queens
September 2015