I saw Jay Sheib's UNTITLED MARS last night at PS122—I'd previously been in Under The Radar with Mr. Sheib's This Place Is a Desert, which I'd found bracing and compelling, but for my money I like UNTITLED MARS a bit more. The show is a mash-up of Philip K. Dick’s Martian Time-Slip and real simulations of life on the Red Planet from the Mars Desert Research Station in the Utah Desert, and people who know some of my pet obsessions will know that this speaks to them, so naturally I wasn't such a hard sell. The set is fantastic, and the actors move marvelously through it—there's an athleticism and on-the-edge-of-uncontrolled quality in a lot of the staging that really is interesting to experience, and it has the best preshow I've seen onstage in years.
You can read about the show here, here, here, here, and here.
Strangely enough, I'll actually be performing in UNTITLED MARS this Thursday, something that happened through the power of serendipity, friendship and too many gin and tonics. I'll be playing the role of a Mars expert, which I play in day to day life by geeking out on Mars information, so in a sense it is a dream come true. If you'd care to see what happens in this remarkable show, come that day or any of the other days of the week...you can use the code "HAL" for 2-for-1 tickets.
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