World of Wires
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 6, 2012
Closed Jan 21, 2012
Opened Jan 6, 2012
Closed Jan 21, 2012
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http://www.thekitchen.org/event/290/0/1/
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Reeling from the reality of people living their lives inside of machines, World of Wires is Scheib's new adaptation of Welt am Draht, filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1973 science-fiction television series. The play is an all-bets-are-off homage to the startling possibility that you too might actually really be ones and zeroes in someone else's immaculately programmed world. World of Wires is also inspired by the works of Oxford University professor Nick Bostrom, including his compelling paper, Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?
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There's a thrilling moment in the beginning of Jay Scheib's World of Wires, currently playing at the Kitchen, when the fourth wall literally comes crashing down. Unfortunately, what follows is a chaotic mess.
The show, which has been adapted by Scheib from Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film of the same name and Dainel Galouye's novel Simulacron-3, imagines a world where people can step into a simulation so real that it eclipses their sense of reality and impacts them as events in real life would.
Cleverly, the work opens with the action being live projected on a large screen that obstructs all but the very corners of the stage -- forcing the audience to watch the action unfold on the screen[...]