MEETING, IMPORTANT mixes actors and audience members in interactive presentation
305 Seventh Ave. between 28th & 29th Sts.
11th floor conference room
Monday – Friday through December 20, 6:30, 8:00 & 9:30
Tickets: $12-$30 (discount available by using code “teambuilding”)
www.artpartytheatercompany.com
Perhaps the last thing you want after finishing another exhausting day at work is finding yourself back at the corporate table, engaged in an urgent discussion about the future of your company. Live theater is supposed to offer an escape from the drudgery of the nine-to-five world, not overtime, but art.party’s Meeting, Important, fresh off residencies at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center and Harvard University, is an engaging little twist on the business of business. Held in a nondescript conference room on Seventh Ave., the interactive show features five actors and as many as fifteen audience members, each given a specific role to play, from intern to regional director. As the meeting goes on, you turn the pages of a binder that includes facts about the company as well as post-its that give details about your character’s personal and professional life and prompts about what to say. Thus, your enjoyment of the sixty-minute production is enhanced by your participation. The more you and the other audience members get involved, the more fun the whole thing is. Just remember that this meeting of the family-owned Limits company is taking place in 1995; don’t get ahead of yourself as we did by making a reference that would have been lost on everyone some sixteen years ago. And yes, coffee and donuts are served, along with a healthy dose of backstabbing. Conceived by art.party, which staged Starbox in Bryant Park in August 2010, and gleefully directed by art.party founder and artistic director Mary Birnbaum, Meeting, Important is a playful take on corporate culture that depends on your involvement to make it, well, work.