600 HIGHWAYMEN (US): A THOUSAND WAYS (Part Two): An Encounter 

TUE 14.9. – SUN 19.9.2021 (multiple performance times)

@ KUOPIO ART MUSEUM, WORKSHOP SPACE
address: Kauppakatu 35
Accessible event

BOOK YOUR SEAT

TUE 14.9.2021 / 10.00, 11.30, 13.00, 14.30 & 16.00
WED 15.9.2021 / 12.00, 13.30, 15.00, 16.30 & 18.00
THU 16.9.2021 / 10.00, 11.30, 13.00, 14.30 & 16.00
FRI 17.9.2021 / 10.00, 11.30, 13.00, 14.30 & 16.00
SAT 18.9.2021 / 10.00, 11.30, 13.00, 14.30 & 16.00
SUN 19.9.2021 / 12.00, 13.30 & 15.00

A project for strangers.

A Thousand Ways is a performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert.

Obie Award-winning theatermakers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating performances that challenge the very definition of theater, have created a quietly radical response to this new world with A Thousand Ways. Each distinct installment presents a new chance at making contact with a stranger. It is a chance at being heard, a brave moment to show up.

This is an invitation. Will you attend?

In Part Two: An Encounter – You and a stranger meet on opposite ends of a table, separated by a pane of glass. Using a script and a few simple objects, a simple exercise of working together becomes an experience of profound connection with another person.

All props are either new for each performance or have been disinfected based on COVID protocols.

Although this is a private encounter between you and a stranger, you will not be in physical contact in any way.

There will be a partition between you and your partner the entire time.

DURATION 45-60 min.
LANGUAGE English

Experience also the Part One: A Phone Call at ANTI Festival!

Safe festival experience

Please follow our general instructions for a COVID safe festival experience!

600 HIGHWAYMEN (US): A THOUSAND WAYS (Part Two): An Encounter 

Credits

Written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone
Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype
Line Producer: Sami Pyne
Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

600 HIGHWAYMEN (US): A THOUSAND WAYS (Part Two): An Encounter 

600 HIGHWAYMEN (US)

Since 2009, 600 HIGHWAYMEN (Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone) have been making live art that, through a variety of radical approaches, illuminates the inherent poignancy of people coming together. The work exists at the intersection of theater, dance, contemporary performance, and civic encounter. Though the processes are varied, each project revolves around the same curiosity: what occurs in the live encounter between people.

600 HIGHWAYMEN has been called the “the standard-bearers of contemporary theater-making” by Le Monde, and “one of New York’s best nontraditional theater companies” by The New Yorker. They have received commissions from The Public Theater, Temple Contemporary, Salzburg Festival, and Festival Theaterformen. They are recipients of an Obie Award and Switzerland’s ZKB Patronage Prize, and nominees for Austria’s Nestroy Prize, the prestigious Alpert Award and NYC’s Bessie Award. In 2016, Browde and Silverstone were named artist fellows by the New York Foundation for the Arts.

600highwaymen.org

600 HIGHWAYMEN (US): A THOUSAND WAYS (Part Two): An Encounter 

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600 HIGHWAYMEN (US): A THOUSAND WAYS (Part Two): An Encounter 

How to get there?

There is an accessible entrance and accessible WC at the venue.