1/8/2024 0 Comments Sleep no more los angeles![]() ![]() Everyone in the group, their headphones securely in place, ventures out together, perhaps being directed to hop on the Metro or enter a parking garage to see the city from a new perspective. (think Her minus the weird sexual undertones). ![]() “This is also theater.” Here’s how it works: A Siri-esque voice guides 50 people at a time along a route custom-mapped for L.A. Rimini Protokoll codirector Jörg Karrenbauer challenges audiences. Started in 2013, Remote X examines the intersection of technology and human behavior-the show abandons a traditional narrative in favor of exploring how we connect with one another. Ticket holders take off from the Mark Taper Forum for a 90-minute audio-walking tour, one that may or may not involve flash mob elements and instructions to diverge from the group. From March 12 through April 2, Center Theatre Group stages German-Swiss arts collective Rimini Protokoll’s Remote X (the X changes with the name of the show’s host city- Remote Santiago, Remote Bangalore-making this incarnation Remote L.A.). It’s become darker (the hit New York show Sleep No More re-imagines Macbeth in a creepy old hotel) and, in the case of a lauded production heading to Los Angeles this month, deeper. Immersive theater-in which audience members are expected to do far more than sit, watch, clap, and go home-has come a long way since Tony and Tina’s Wedding.
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