We miss our posts too! We are good but as many people know, have a 3 year old that keeps us busier these days. Waffle’s work schedule changed and has gotten more intense this year making it more difficult to find time to post. We have also been less able, as a result, to make as many trips to the hotel as we used to.
We are good though and we are actually making a trip to NYC today for a long weekend. Now days we tend to try to combine trips to catch other things we want to see. This weekend we will be doing Sleep No More in addition to Noirtown and Bartchland Follies. We will try to post something next week!
To SNM fandom, if you are thinking of going to Play (an experience gallery), which is produced by SNM alum Taylor Myers, and have several SNM cast members involved including Mallory; and the new immersive theatre piece Noirtown, which has Chelsey and Shane on the show; I would recommend doing both of them in one night, because the two venues are literally 5 minutes walk away from each other.
Please notice there is no ticket to Play available online. I bought mine on site.
NOIRTOWN, the newest experience from immersive theater company WITNESS opens August 9th as part of the Ken Davenport-produced Rave Theater Festival for five performances only.
NOIRTOWN, the newest experience from immersive theater company WITNESS, opens August 9th as part of the Ken Davenport-produced Rave Theater Festival for five performances only.
A fully immersive promenade-style experience, NOIRTOWN plunges audiences into the shadowy and seductive world of film noir, where private eyes and femme fatales mingle in the dark corners of the city by night. Three radically different detectives take three radically different cases, all of which seem to be linked by the same enigmatic woman. As they each try to get to the bottom of their own mystery, more questions than answers are unearthed... Audiences are invited to follow their own detective instincts, and will be free to roam throughout the space and follow whichever characters and threads they please.
The cast features Nik Duggan, Daniel Harray (Orange is the New Black), Shane Jensen (Sleep No More), Kendall Kemp, Chelsey Ng (Sleep No More), and Stephanie Salgado. NOIRTOWN is written by Michael Bontatibus and directed by Charlotte Murray.
There are only five opportunities to visit NOIRTOWN, and space is limited. Performances are the evenings of 8/9, 8/10, 8/11, 8/17, and 8/24, taking place at The Clemente on 107 Suffolk St. For tickets and more information, visit www.witnessimmersive.com.
The "Get Out" director is making good on his word to continue subverting the traditions of classic Hollywood.
Jordan Peele was quite vocal about his intentions to subvert classic thrillers like “The Stepford Wives” in “Get Out,” and he’s up to something similar in a new project for W Magazine titled “Noir Town.” The publication asked the Oscar-nominated filmmaker to direct a fashion photo shoot, so he decided to call up his friend Janelle Monáe and create a story that subverts the Alfred Hitchcock noir by casting a woman of color in the lead role.
The photo spread tells the story of a private detective (Monáe) who is standing in a clock tower watching a parade unfold on the street below. The detective is searching for clues to a murder, but as she looks through her camera and studies the crowd she begins to notice one of the bystanders looks exactly like her. The identical stranger is one of many who begin to appear through the detective’s lens.
“I wanted to create a Hitchcock moment that doesn’t really exist in a Hitchcock film,” Peele explained about the project, which pulls from titles like “Vertigo” and “Psycho” but tells the story through a women of color. Peele handpicked Monáe for the lead and also insisted W Magazine hire a female photographer, Collier Schorr.
“I didn’t want the Hitchcock heroine,” Peele said. “I wanted the Hitchcock hero. That way, we can reclaim this movie that we never got to see. The fear of gender and race robs us of beautiful pieces of film…Putting Janelle in that character is all you need to create my new favorite movie.”
