Event

Zero Cost House (Zoom)

Zero Cost House (for Zoom)
By Toshiki Okada
Translated by Aya Ogawa
Directed by Dan Rothenberg

June 26-27 & July 2-3
7:30PM (EDT) on Zoom
FOR DAY OF TICKETS (within 1 hour of the show)
email: info@pigiron.org

The performance is 2 hours long, with a 5 minute intermission.

Pay what you wish, $1-$99.
All ticket proceeds will be donated to Mill Creek Urban Farm (www.millcreekurbanfarm.org/) and Morris Home (www.rhd.org/morrishome/).

After purchasing a ticket you will receive an email with the link to the Zoom webinar.

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A livestreamed play about disaster, Thoreau's 'Walden', and the conscience of the artist.

Back in 2010, Pig Iron commissioned Japanese playwright Toshiki Okada to create a new play with us. As we began to work on the piece, the earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima disaster reordered life in Japan. So Toshiki changed course - in life and in the work - and the play became a kind of autobiography. What began as an adaptation of Thoreau's 'Walden' became a sly referendum on what's at stake when an artist becomes "political."

What's at stake on the inside. Okada's writing has been called "hyper self conscious," and he's a master cartographer of everyday worries and the yearning to break free of everyday life. We always wanted to get back to this play, which premiered in 2012-2013 - and this moment of political awakening and forced isolation seemed like the ideal moment.

So we've reworked Zero Cost House for Zoom. Our first digital outing - and we think it might be better than the original! Actors in Philadelphia and New York will perform the play four times, live, from their homes. No special effects - this is a strictly analog affair. Except for the streaming platform, of course.

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Zero Cost House (for Zoom) has been generously supported by The Japan Foundation, New York.