This Is Not A Theatre Company

This Is Not A Theatre Company creates site-based, interactive, multi-sensory, participatory dance-theatre that is smelled, touched, and tasted as well as seen and heard. We surround participants with an event that engages the sensorium, asking them to perceive the world in new ways, and to empathize in new ways. Our work is not passively consumed; audiences co-create with us and, in doing so, actively practice creativity, as opposed to sitting before the results of someone else’s. 

 

We use play (as both noun and verb) to foster critical thinking, multi-sensory full-bodied engagement, and radical empathy. Our goals are to expand the number senses through which theatre is experienced, to expand the definition of “theatre,” and to make work with, not for, our audiences.

 

Our productions include: Pool Play 2.0, Versailles, Café Play, Play!, Theatre In The Dark, Readymade Cabaret, A Serious Banquet, Allow Me: A Play on Manners, and Camping Play. In addition, we have two on-going site-specific audio plays (available for download to a smartphone from the Apple and Android app stores) for the Staten Island Ferry (Ferry Play) and the NYC Subway system (Subway Plays), which bring theatre out of enclosed spaces and into daily life, and are available for $1.99 and $2.99 respectively.