WRITTEN BY
Carl Hancock Rux
DIRECTED BY
Mallory Catlett
PRESENTED
MABOU MINES
FEATURING
Becca Blackwell
Mildred Ruiz-Sapp
David Thomson
Perry Yung
DIGITAL DESIGN BY
Onome Ekeh
INTERACTIVE DESIGN BY
Eamonn Farrell
“The danger is you, and this council, and this hearing, and this senate and its polity…”
Online premiere July 30 – August 8
Fridays and Saturdays at 7pm
Sundays at 2pm
Running time 50-55 min
Vs. can be considered part tribunal of evidence — guided and constrained by the statutory powers of the “Interrogator” — and part psychodynamic investigation of a sovereign polity, a collective of accused citizenry. Vs. creates a philosophical tribunal to acquit or prosecute crimes against humanity. As writer Carl Hancock Rux and team work within the new parameters that “zoom performance” affords, Vs. indulges in a virtual game of ‘tag’ in which members of the audience find themselves complicit when randomly selected as “The Interrogator” — an identity hack that speaks a new digital patois.
Support for Vs. was provided by Venturous Theater Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation.