Interviewing the Audience
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 10, 2011
Closed Feb 27, 2011
Opened Feb 10, 2011
Closed Feb 27, 2011
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Playwright and filmmaker Zach Helm ("Good Canary", screenwriter/director "Stranger than Fiction" and "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium") brings a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience to The Vineyard. Based on a method originated by pioneering author, actor, and storyteller Spalding Gray, Zach invites individual members of each evening's audience to be interviewed by him on stage. The result is an improvised, intimate, and immensely compelling evening that expands our perception of theatre and narrative. By turns lighthearted and moving, strange and surprising, Interviewing the Audience is a not-to-be-missed special event.
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RE:Interviewing the Audience
This play was seen on 7/24/10 in the Powerhouse Theater Vassar College Campus Poughkeepsie: I went to see Zach Helm perform this piece simply on a whim, because it had sounded like an interesting concept. Helm had actually seen this same play performed, when he was a child, so as ?homage? to the original he asks the same first question which is: ?how did you get here tonight?? When I saw this performed Helm asked 3 people from the audience to sit on the stage, with him, and he then proceeded to ask them questions. At the end he summarized the 3 interviews into a common denominator. When I saw him he asked questions of 3 very similar, middle class, women and the common denominator was Love, which I felt you could have said about ANY 3 interviews. I?m hoping that with a crowd as diverse as NYC typically has he will be able to draw from a much richer base and come up with a more interesting conclusion. The concept was very interesting and the time spent watching this performance was well worth it.
Reviewed by OV26492745
on Saturday, Jan 22nd, 2011
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Maverick screenwriter, director, and playwright Zach Helm begins each performance of Interviewing the Audience by simply standing on the lip of the Vineyard Theatre stage to welcome those in attendance. With that, he launches into an hour-long evening that can, on the one hand, be described as a mesmerizing recreation of a theatrical experience first developed three decades ago by the late Spalding Gray. On the other hand, as Helm himself emphasizes, it's also a series of utterly distinct performances that can never be seen again. Either way, the one I saw was a fascinating evening that was far too brief.
Each show consists of three or so consecutive chats that Helm conducts onstage with in[...]