Philadelphia Weekly

Electric Jungle

Electric Jungle, the new Philly Fringe production from Found Theater Company, seeks to answer the question: “What does sound do to us?” according to director Phoebe Schaub. Part of the immersive theater movement that changes the relationship between actor and audience and puts theatergoers inside the show, Jungle amplifies the visceral style of theater that has made Found one of the city’s most compelling alternative theater companies. The show explores our responses to sound and music by ushering the audience through three distinctive spaces. The first is an antechamber that Schaub describes as a “sterile white chamber” filled with pre-recorded sound comprised of “text, music, and digital tones.” The two subsequent spaces are a surprise, but we can reveal that they immerse the audience in worlds that represent the evolution of sound from the natural to the technological. Schaub says there is little in the way of dialogue spoken by the actors, but rather the narrative is forged primarily through songs and imagery that take the audience on a journey from a simple sigh to the pulsating rhythm of an amplified five-piece band. -J. Cooper Robb

7pm. $15.  Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St. 215.413.1318. livearts-fringe.org
 

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WHEN
Monday, September 17, 2012
Recurring: ONCE

TIME & PRICE
7pm. $15.

WHERE
Painted Bride Art Center , 230 Vine St., Philadelphia, PA
One time only on 09/17/2012. .

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