What if captions ‘step up,’ ‘speak with’ you, and ‘tell’ you about their stories? 💬💭💃🏽✌🏽:)
Jay Afrisando: [𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖 𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨]
performed by thingNY
Fri, May 26, ’23, 7:00 pm ET
@herearts, DOT Theatre
145 6th Ave, New York, NY
🔗 Tix & Info: https://ci.ovationtix.com/219/production/1157853?performanceId=11268622
𝐂𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 [𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞]: 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠, 𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝. 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐮𝐩.
📌 [opera captions] focuses on captions that bring together accessibility, inner and imagined voices, and improvisation.
▶️ It’s a semi-fiction, semi-translation, semi-poetry, semi-film, semi-music, and semi-theater performance!
👋 It features captions as “an actor” interacting with and personified by bodily-diverse human beings: a collective of New York composer-performers thingNY and wonderful viewers-audiences.
🏮[opera captions] reimagines what captions can do beyond functioning as a speech conveyor and a sound interpreter in audiovisual media.
🧡 [opera captions] invites you to celebrate the lives of captions that have been both cherished and hated.
Accessibility/things to anticipate
• Captions will be the main performance elements. They will also be audible.
• There is no sound amplification, and the overall loudness will be moderate.
• A very small part of the performance features profanity.
• The DOT Theater is wheelchair accessible and fully compliant with ADA requirements.
Creator, Director, Writer, and Composer – Jay Afrisando
Performer – thingNY (Gelsey Bell, Andrew Livingston, Erin Rogers, Dave Ruder, Jeffrey Young)
Lighting Designer – Christina Tang
Project Manager – Terry Perdanawati
Graphic Designer – Jay Afrisando
Original photo – kinsum
[opera captions] is made possible by the support of The MAP Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, and Mellon Foundation. https://mapfund.org/ @themapfund
This production is a part of SubletSeries@HERE: a curated rental program, which provides artists with subsidized space and equipment, as well as a technical liaison.
