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Temping

Is a Workplace Drama for One.
You’re Hired.

An immersive work at the Wild Project asks the sole audience member to consider the value of life while role playing as an office worker involved in calculating risk of death.

At “temping,” a solo theater experience that begins performances at the Wild Project on Friday, there is only one seat in the house. That seat is an ergonomic office chair, facing an office cubicle. Jiggle the knob to adjust it. “Theater is all about being in the room with human beings,” Asa Wember, the show’s co-creator and sound designer, said in a recent Zoom meeting. “Can you remove that quality and have it still feel like theater?” Sit down, boot up, find out. Produced by Dutch Kills Theater and created by Wolf 359, “temping” amalgamates the categories of immersive theater, performance art, installation art and gaming. At each contactless performance, a sole audience member enters the otherwise deserted space (here the lobby, because the Wild Project can legally open as a gallery, not as a theater) and finds a work space outfitted with the everyday detritus of office life — computer, printer, landline phone.

audience of one by a Windows PC, a corporate phone, a laser printer, and the Microsoft Office Suite. Filling in at Sarah Jane’s cubicle, you’ll update client records, send emails, and eavesdrop on intra-office romance as you discover the secrets of your new employer. Congratulations, you’re the new temp! Pack your lunch and get ready to work.ployee’s inner life, is performed for an audience of one by a Windows PC, a corporate phone, a laser printer, and the Microsoft Office Suite. Filling in at Sarah Jane’s cuxbicle, you’ll update client records, send emails, and eavesdrop on intra-office romance as you discover the secrets of your new employer. Congratulations, you’re the new temp! Pack your lunch and get ready to work.
Block Association Project was developed as part of The Playwrights Realm’s Beyond the Realm festival (Katherine Kovner, Founding Artistic Director | Roberta Pereira, Producing Director)
audience of one by a Windows PC, a corporate phone, a laser printer, and the Microsoft Office Suite. Filling in at Sarah Jane’s cubicle, you’ll update client records, send emails, and eavesdrop on intra-office romance as you discover the secrets of your new employer. Congratulations, you’re the new temp! Pack your lunch and get ready to work.ployee’s inner life, is performed for an audience of one by a Windows PC, a corporate phone, a laser printer, and the Microsoft Office Suite. Filling in at Sarah Jane’s cubicle, you’ll update client records, send emails, and eavesdrop on intra-office romance as you discover the secrets of your new employer. Congratulations, you’re the new temp! Pack your lunch and get ready to work.
Block Association Project was developed as part of The Playwrights Realm’s Beyond the Realm festival (Katherine Kovner, Founding Artistic Director | Roberta Pereira, Producing Director)