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"Serious, deeply felt, intellectually rigorous work. You feel yourself being hypnotized, forced into a state of mind you weren’t prepared for." - NYtheatre.com "The 'box' is a miracle of aesthetic engineering." - NYtheatre.com Last Year, The Universe...it came to me in a dream was performed at Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater in the East Village in 2005. First developed as a part of the Ontological’s five month Outside/Input residency program for emerging artists, this show stretched Temporary Distortion’s investigation of stillness and silence in the theater to its most radical end yet. Isolated in one of Temporary Distortion’s signature “box” structures, an unnamed man and woman struggle to explore the memories of an unrequited love through blank stares, static dialogue, stillness and songs. This work dealt explicitly with the group’s investigation of the effects of minimalism and stillness as a performative method and examined the expressive potential of these strategies in the form of theater. Performances The Ontological-Hysteric Theater (New York, NY) 2005 Written & Directed by Kenneth Collins CAST Brian Greer Lorraine Mattox Video: William Cusick Costumes: TaraFawn Marek Music: Andrew Elsesser

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