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Theatre review: Up close and personal with Theatre for One at Cork Midsummer Festival
by Clare Keogh
The Irish Examiner
★★★★★
“It is a privilege to experience such breadth of acting and writing talent in the space of half an hour. What is initially a discomfiting intimacy ends up being exhilarating; in an increasingly atomised world, one is reminded of the eternal truth of EM Forster’s famous epigraph: Only Connect.” — Marjorie Brennan
HERE WE ARE (NAIROBI EDITION), 2021
THE ARTS CENTER AT NYU ABU DHABI LAUNCHES THEATRE FOR ONE: WE ARE HERE (NAIROBI EDITION)
Hear from Creative Producer, Karishma Bhagani; Artistic Director and Creator Christine Jones; Directors from Rainmaker Limited, Sheba Hirst and Eric Wainaina; and Executive Artistic Director of The Arts Center at NYUAD, Bill Bragin.
HERE WE ARE, 2020
BFPL Presents A Conversation with Theatre for One and OpenEndedGroup
A conversation with Christine Jones, Jenny Koons, Marc Downie, and Paul Kaiser about their exploration and creation of the digital platform.
Russell G. Jones in Here We Are by Nikkole Salter; photo by Cherie B. Tay
Four Intimate Screen Encounters (One From Far Away)
The New York Times Critic’s Pick
“You could say each sweet morsel, delivered with charged intimacy in this time of isolation, is like a truffle: small, delicious, refined — and over in an instant. But I like to think of each piece like a ship in a bottle, presenting an exquisite piece of architecture within the narrow confines of the form.” —Maya Phillips
Regina Taylor in Vote! (the black album) by Regina Taylor. Photo: Cherie B. Tay
It’s Just You and Me and the Modem in ‘Here We Are’
The New York Times Critic’s Pick
“Enhanced by terrific acting, you feel seen in a way that has been too often absent these six months — and maybe longer. Intimacy in the live theater is always touch-and-go. On display alone in our homes, we are much more seen than usual.” —Jesse Green
How Are Audiences Adapting to the Age of Virtual Theatre?
The New Yorker
“Moments of gently heightened language took me out of, then put me right back into, the action of the play—and made me feel its artifice while being convinced of its deeper reality, all at once. “ –Vinson Cunningham
Patrice Bell in Thank You For Coming. Take Care by Stacey Rose
Theatre for One Wants You to Sit Up Straight and Pay Attention
New York Magazine/Vulture.com
“You sit up straight and lean in and listen hard….like tensing a muscle we might not get to fully use again until sometime next year.” —Helen Shaw
Clockwise: Zuleyma Guevara, Russell G. Jones, Patrice Bell, Nikkole Salter, Mahira Kakkar, Shyla Lefner; photo by Cherie B. Tay
Inside ‘Theatre for One,’ Where You’re the Only Audience Member
The Daily Beast
“We held each other’s gaze for an uncanny moment. It was the closest I’ve ever felt to a performer, and to a writer’s story, in the same room or otherwise.” —Naveen Kumar
Patrice Bell in Thank You For Coming. Take Care. by Stacey Rose
Theatre for One mounts free solo plays for solo audiences
Time Out New York
“The virtual series offers moving one-on-one theater experiences with live actors. Have the past few months left you starved for human connection and craving a little intimate personal attention? If so, Theatre for One: Here We Are may be just the thing.” —Adam Feldman
THEATRE FOR ONE: IRELAND 2019
Thought-provoking theatre where the audience is just you
The Irish Times
"In Cork, some queued hours for their five-minute dramas. If it ever returns, it will be worth the wait for such transfixing experiences, one at a time.." —Peter Crawley
★★★★★
Cork Midsummer festival review – theatre for all … and one
The Guardian
“The six pieces become an urgent antidote to watching the world through the mediation of a small screen. Cumulatively, they create an exhilarating sense of aliveness.” —Helen Meany
★★★★★
IN THIS MOMENT, 2016
5 SHORT PLAYS, UP-CLOSE AND UNSETTLED, PURPOSELY
New York Times Critic’s Pick
"...boils the live experience down to its essence..." —Elisabeth Vincentelli
I’M NOT THE STRANGER YOU THINK I AM, 2015
Is It Smaller Than a Black Box? A Visit to I’m Not the Stranger You Think I Am
New York Magazine/Vulture.com
"...“immersive” doesn’t begin to describe this." —Jesse Green
‘I’m Not the Stranger You Think I Am,’ Where Theater Meets Confessional
New York Times —Critic’s Pick
"What Theater for One does is...put our relationship with those on stage under a magnifying lens of self-consciousness." —Ben Brantley
New York Daily News
Theatre for one is a show for a lone audience member and a solo performer
New York Daily News
"It's as intimate as it gets….I went from fretting about sitting up straight, to trying to hold back a tear… It turns out, theater is a gripping, communal experience — even when you’re by yourself." —Joe Dziemianowicz
Close Encounters of the theatrical kind
The New Yorker
"Why crave the attention of multitudes when the most we can ask for is to be seen—fully, if momentarily—by just one person?” —Michael Schulman