Américana Passover

In Memoriam

Production Notes:

To you, our audience: In Memoriam explores the stories we inadvertently create as we record our lives daily in the public spaces of the Internet. We canonize minutia -- tweets, posts, tumbls -- and as these small memorials collect, they form an illusory landscape that becomes the only ground upon which we feel comfortable standing. What's meant to be small -- your dinner -- becomes big and definitive, but what should be big -- your marriage proposal -- is miniaturized and easily confined to a status.

Think about this: You lose one of the characters from your life (not a major player, more like the woman who works three cubicles down, or the guy you swapped stories with on your junior-high bus route). This loss throws
the clockwork of daily memorialization into sharp relief by forcing the question: how do I bear witness to loss

Production Notes cont'd:

in such an illusory landscape, and then: does that landscape provide fertile enough soil on which to sow a worthy response?

The critical space that transmedia creates through the intersection of multiple modes of storytelling -- social media, fictional prose, video, and live performance -- allows for direct engagement with these questions and affords us an opportunity to have our digital lives burst into real space.

In Memoriam’s performance happens daily. As new content emerges online, you, our audience, receive the next piece of the story while we, the performers, extend its reach to meet you weekly through live theatrical events.

José Pérez IV’s FIGHTER

The First Ladies Project

Percival’s Big Night

The Story of the Chisel Boy

The End

Performance Anxiety

Hamlet

Syzygy

The Kafka Project

Orchestration