Newyorkland Run-Through Video
“Seamless and gorgeous… a dreamy, poetic, abstracted and sometimes scary meditation.”
The Stranger
“Newyorkland is a fascinating window into a cop’s often isolating experiences.”
The Seattle Times
“What is remarkable about the performance is its amplification of your senses, so that you begin a sensory immersion into Newyorkland.”
The SunBreak
“A hypnotic and sumptuous theatrical presentation.”
Seattlest
“A compelling, self-contained world from which it’s impossible to avert one’s eyes… an original and important evening of theater.”
Crosscut
Newyorkland is an intertextual assemblage that combines cop movies, popular TV police procedurals and firsthand accounts of real-life police officers. Director Kenneth Collins’ personal interviews with police officers in his immediate family are mixed with found text and William Cusick’s explorations of cinéma vérité, documentary realism and pure fiction. Merging film, performance and visual art, the production is staged in one of Temporary Distortion’s signature boxlike installations.