Untitled Mars at Performance Space 122

Performance Space 122 presents Untitled Mars: This Title May Change, an experimental theatre play, conceived and directed by Jay Scheib, opening at Performance Space 122 on 13 Apr 2008, following previews from 8 Apr and running through to 27 Apr 2008.

Director Jay Scheib crash-lands seven performers into a simulated Martian environment. The first in a trilogy of works for live performance under the banner SimulatedCities/Simulated Systems, Untitled Mars is an international collaboration between theater ensemble Pont Muhley of Budapest and a team of research scientists phoning in their performance live via satellite from the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah.

Untitled Mars is an excursion into an interplanetary future defined by Scheib�s signature multi-media aesthetic. Rewriting fiction with reality, Untitled Mars caps a year of collaboration with an international team of Space industry visionaries, artists, and research scientists and students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Is it possible to live on Mars? Just ask people who are selling real estate on the Red Planet. Going to Mars with a one-way ticket was out of the question years ago but how far away from that idea are we today? Mars Analog Research Stations are working hard to learn how to live and work on another planet. Are you ready to pick up and leave? Scheib�s creation will be able to give you an idea.

The play is performed by Karl Allen, Dorka Gryllus, Caleb Hammond, L�szl� Kesz�g, Catherine McCurry, Tanya Selvaratnam, April Sweeney, Natalie Thomas, Bal�zs Vajna with special on-camera appearances by Phillip Cunio, Zahra Khan and Dr. Robert Zubrin and others.

The creative team comprises Peter Ksander (sets), Oana Botetz-Ban (costumes), Miranda Hardy (lighting) and Catherine McCurry (sound).