{"id":113566,"date":"2020-11-17T00:56:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T21:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/neil-labutes-new-covid-19-play-has-no-live-actors\/"},"modified":"2020-11-17T00:56:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T21:56:03","slug":"neil-labutes-new-covid-19-play-has-no-live-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/neil-labutes-new-covid-19-play-has-no-live-actors\/","title":{"rendered":"#Neil LaBute’s new COVID-19 play has no live actors"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Neil LaBute’s new COVID-19 play has no live actors<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n COVID-era entertainment has so far been about one thing: Zoom.<\/p>\n

\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d mocked Zoom meetings in episodes that were filmed from the cast\u2019s apartments. Richard Nelson\u2019s play \u201cWhat Do We Need To Talk About?\u201d depicted a WASP family\u2019s Zoom call. Netflix\u2019s new TV series<\/a> \u201cSocial<\/a> Distance\u201d is a lot of video chatting.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s overkill. What once was cute is now impossibly tedious.<\/p>\n

Thank goodness Denizen Theatre has swapp<\/a>ed Zoom for a room.<\/p>\n

The small theater in New Paltz is one of the precious few in New York putting on in-person shows for audiences right now. Broadway, of course, remains closed till at least next fall.<\/p>\n

How on earth have they managed it? Easy. By having no live actors.<\/p>\n

For their world premiere of Neil LaBute\u2019s \u201cTrue Love Will Find You in the End\u201d<\/a> \u2014 a coronavirus pandemic thriller \u2014 just eight audience members sit in the round and listen to two prerecorded performers enact a tense two-hander. (Tickets are $24 to $28.)<\/p>\n

It can, at times, feel like a podcast. But the technique is a sharp workaround for a couple of reasons: Ticket-buyers need to be coaxed back to the theater in a comfortable, gradual way, rather than be told to jam-pack into 1,500-seat auditoriums in a few months. And, just as importantly, we\u2019ve forgotten what it\u2019s like to watch something without distraction. It\u2019s nearly impossible to enjoy TV, read or listen to music without glancing at the news<\/a> \u2014 good or bad \u2014 on your phone.<\/p>\n

Even at a show without actors, you\u2019re told to turn that damn phone off and listen.<\/p>\n

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Gia Crovatin and KeiLyn Durrel Jones star in \u201cTrue Love Will Find You in the End.\u201d<\/span>Joe Gaffney<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LaBute\u2019s writing, with its usual domestic unraveling, is well-suited to an audio-play format. A husband (KeiLyn Durrel Jones) and a wife (Gia Crovatin) seem to separately discuss with another person \u2014 whom we never hear from \u2014 about the last several months of their lives. How the pandemic went from terrifying to novel to monotonous. The comments are relatable, and we assume they\u2019re speaking to a therapist.<\/p>\n

Neil LaBute, however, would not be Neil LaBute if the 45-minute drama was just a series of poignant observations about our lockdown lives. The man likes a shocker. So, the story takes a perverse turn, and one character starts living a nightmare within a nightmare.<\/p>\n

Director J.J. Kandel\u2019s staging, such as it is, shows great ingenuity given the mountain of restrictions. The experience is kind of like going to a 4-D IMAX movie. The walls in the theater change color when each character speaks, and the direction of the sound moves around to keep us engaged. In the center of the stage are two metal rings, and one is filled with water. Droplets from the ceiling hypnotically fall into the pool (on purpose), perhaps to say that there is a crack in the veneer.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrue Love Will Find You in the End\u201d is not the playwright\u2019s best work, although it is still a fun and creepy time, and shows without actors are not the future of theater. But small, unusual, brave steps like these are essential to the broader theater\u2019s eventual comeback.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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