The Operating Theater
2010 Swing Space Resident, Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center At Governors Island
The Operating Theater, entertains audiences with unusual, innovative, provocative performance, creating art that can only be fully experienced in a live forum. It experiments with perception and explore the visceral subjectivity of human experience. Since its inception in 2003, it has produced full-length productions including FLAT (Moral Values Festival best-of-festival encore run at The Brick Theater) The Present Perfect (NYIT Award Winner for Excellence: Lighting Design & Nominee for Excellence in Set Design 2007) and Van Driver (two productions at The Cherry Lane Theater’s Cherry Pit Late Night Series); short-form performance pieces: Are You ALIVE?, a traveling metaphysical game show (Little Theater, Catch Series, P.S.122’s Avant-Garde-A-Rama), and excerpts from The Garden of Forked Tongues (Little Theater, Catch Series) and The Doctor Schüler Medicine Show, an avant-garde cavalcade at El Cid and The MET Theater in Los Angeles).
At 14 Wall Street, The Operating Theater will be working on The Garden of Forked Tongues, a live and recorded mixed-media performance concerning a group of ordinary people who become involved with tourists from the future. Their journey takes them to all corners of the universe, and to vast, unknown horizons in their minds. Throughout the production the audience is hypnotized to impart the feeling of traveling through time with the characters.
