10
Oct/20

TOLERANCE PARTY #2: ROLE CALL

10
Oct/20

Six strangers reunite for another online adventure in the cell’s Tolerance Party #2: Role Call

Who: Corey Allen, Bob Jaffe, Heather Mo’Witz, Richard Urquiza, India Meñete, Brian Reager, Peyton Rowe
What: Live online interactive performance
Where: The cell theatre online
When: Tuesday, October 13, $5-$25, 8:00
Why: On September 1, the cell theatre premiered the first episode of the interactive online participatory series Tolerance Party, titled “Icebreakers,” in which six strangers get trapped in an existential new world order. The same characters (with one addition) are back for more on October 13 at 8:00 in Tolerance Party #2: Role Call, a collaboration between Nancy Manocherian’s Chelsea theater and DimlyWit Productions. This time around, Corey Allen, Bob Jaffe, Heather Mo’Witz, Richard Urquiza, India Meñete, Brian Reager, and Peyton Rowe come together to perform a play, but they’re not really sure what it’s all about as they face new obstacles and cursed cats; a live chat function encourages the audience to join in the mystery.

Tickets for the show, which was written and directed by cell regular Joseph Hendel (Katzelmacher, U.S.A.; Beware the Ides of Monday), co-conceived by cell artistic director Kira Simring, and features original music by Ricardo Romaneiro, are available on a sliding scale from $5 to $25, depending on what you can afford. This production is online, but the cell is currently hosting the masked, meditative labyrinthine journey Garden of Eden, a collaboration with Dark Matter, in its home on West Twenty-Third St.; extended through December 19 ($10-$40 per person), the interactive installation promises, “Around each corner lies enlightenment. Each dead end is a new beginning.”