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Miles Wheeler II in the Black & Red Room, written by Gabriel Graetz, directed by LaToya T. Robinson.
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You are cordially invited...
Experience 7 Rooms:
The Masque of the Red Death
July 28 – August 15, 2021!
7 playwrights. 7 directors. 15 actors. 4 stage managers. Over 40 theatre artists total. This July 28 – August 15, join us as we meet a moment of pandemic-era isolation with the radically collaborative 7 Rooms: The Masque of the Red Death.
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Featuring 7 new short plays fully realized by our playwright-director teams:
Cliff Odle & Johnny Nichols, Jr. (The Blue Room)
MJ Halberstadt & Lee Mikeska Gardner (The Purple Room)
Michael Lin & David R. Gammons (The Green Room)
Hortense Gerardo & Jessica Ernst (The Orange Room)
Sari Boren & Shira Helena Gitlin (The Violet Room)
Kelly Smith & Elizabeth Yvette Ramirez (The White Room)
Gabriel Graetz & LaToya T. Robinson (The Black & Red Room)
...united by a live solo performance by Juliet Bowler, written by Amy Lehrmitt and directed by Lindsay Eagle!
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From July 28th to August 15th, experience this theatrical kaleidoscope via Zoom hosted live by the eccentric noble Prospero (Juliet Bowler), and travel with us to spaceships, speakeasies, basements, bonfires, and unexpected liminal spaces.
Tickets to the party are pay-what-you-can with no minimum. We'll see you at the masquerade!
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Kristen Heider and Michael Lin in the Purple Room, written by MJ Halberstadt, directed by Lee Mikeska Gardner.
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Just what IS 7 Rooms:
The Masque of the Red Death?!
Flat Earth Theatre is reimagining the way we create theatre. This project began with an idea and an Edgar Allan Poe story, which formed a framework on which we built a community we like to describe as “radically collaborative.” Playwrights and directors joined in building a shared world of stories that speak to each other across varied moods, genres, and themes, but harmonize into a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
- 7 Rooms is an immersive virtual theatre experience where audience members may “choose their own adventure” as they navigate Prospero’s decadent end-of-the-world party while the Red Death devastates the world outside. Within Prospero’s manor, where costumed revellers escape the plague, discover an evening of theatre exploring isolation, connection, moral dilemmas, humor, humanity, and hope.
- THIS IS NOT ZOOM THEATRE. 7 Rooms offers seven glimpses through seven windows into seven fully staged short plays with fully realized designs and actors present in the physical space together. Just think of Zoom as the tool audiences use to watch the plays.
- The plays are united by a live solo performance written by Amy Lehrmitt (who recently released the original radio play Fine-Tuned Universe), directed by Lindsay Eagle (lauded for her electrifying production of X by Alistair McDowall), and featuring powerhouse actor Juliet Bowler (nominated for an Elliot Norton award for her magnetic performance in Not Medea) as the gregarious host of the party, Prospero.
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Lorraine Kanyike in the White Room, written by Kelly Smith, directed by Elizabeth Yvette Ramirez.
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Support Prospero's Plague Palace
(and then come join the party at the end of the world)
With your support, we've reached more than half our fundraising goal – and there's still time to help. Your donations help cover the costs of props and costumes, and most importantly, stipends for the amazing team of collaborators who have come together to build this house. You can choose to direct your donation to an individual room or rooms – or spread it around to help support the whole party!
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