Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: When the scenes shift location in "The Task," it's the audience that will move, not the scenery.
Unlike a traditional theater performance where the audience remains seated throughout, Quantum Theatre's production of Heiner Muller's "The Task" will progress through a series of installation-like visions and experiences inside a large, post-industrial space in the Gage Building.
"I think the process lends itself to the play," says Quantum Theatre artistic director Karla Boos. "When the audience gets up and moves, they (will be) very aware they are an audience in the theater."
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I highly recommend seeing this show while it is still around. The great thing about it, is that even if you don't love the story, the experience is exciting and interesting enough to provide you with an enriching night of theater. It was very fascinating to see a show done like this, as I have only read or heard about them. The lighting and sound designers did a fabulous job of working and incorporating the space, creating eerie but believable environments.
As a HUGE fan of experiential, site-specific and immersive theatre projects, I can't wait to go see THE TASK. Jed's production utilizes a wandering characters technique, in which a scene ends and the characters split, allowing audience members to choose a character and follow them to another scene, which then proceeds onwards and so forth. Such a format is both great in that people can follow a character they like and build an experience of their own volition, but inevitably the audience member does get to see everything, and thus feels like they missed something key in the other scenes. It's far from a perfect audience free-will device, but it does get close and creates a unique experience for each individual audience member.
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