Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind 2006

Run Time:
1 hour, with no intermission
Ages: Content varies, may be mature
Opened: January 20, 2006
Closing: December 17, 2016

Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind - 2006 - Off-Broadway History , Info & More

Kraine Theatre
85 E. 4th St. New York, NY

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is an ever-changing attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes -- an original concept by Greg Allen and the Neo-Futurists. The single unifying element of these plays is that they are performed from a perspective of absolute honesty. We always appear as ourselves on stage, speaking directly from our personal experiences. Each short play is written by a performer, honed by the ensemble, and randomly collaged with twenty-nine other plays through high energy audience participation. Each week, these plays shift as ensemble members add new plays to the existing body of work. Each night of performance, we aim to create an unreproducable living newspaper of the comic and tragic, the political and personal, the visceral and experimental.

Neo-Futurism is a new approach to performance which advocates the complete awareness and inclusion of the actual world within the theater in order to achieve a goal: to bring people to a greater understanding of themselves and each other. Rather than upholding contemporary theatrical conventions of character, setting, plot, and the separation of audience and performer, Neo-Futurism aims to present actual life on stage by creating a world in the theater which has no pretense or illusion.

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Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What productions of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind have there been?
Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind has had 1 productions including Off-Broadway which opened in 2006.

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