Gun Play Aims for Long Island City, Jan. 12-Feb. 4 2006

By: Dec. 02, 2005
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The Chocolate Factory will present the world premiere of the video game-infused theatrical extravaganza Gun Play, conceived and directed by Chocolate Factory founder/Artistic Director Brian Rogers.  Performances begin January 12th and end February 4th, 2006 at The Chocolate Factory (located at 5-49 49th Avenue, Long Island City) Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM. 

Gun Play "is a celebration of firearms as they are represented in American popular culture. Drawing parallels between real violence and imagined violence, the performance will recreate the world of 3-D first-person-shooter videogames on stage while integrating videogame footage using high-tech video and computers. The audience, wearing headphones (Quake Convention style), watch the gun and gamer world come to life with an all-star cast of real-life gun relevant personalities like Hunter S. Thompson, Ted Nugent, William S. Burroughs and John Carmack (the guy who made Doom and Quake who is personally responsible for major advances in 3D graphics), et al. The cast plays videogames, manipulate realistic weaponry, and step into the shoes of real life personalities," state press notes.
 
"Gun Play is about real violence and real guns, and their relationship to the highly realistic but exaggerated fantasy worlds represented in video games and Hollywood movies. How do those worlds intersect? There will be a lot of choreography inspired by fps videogames, John Woo and films like The Matrix" said creator Brian Rogers. "There will also be real-time physics demonstrations where the difference between a real gun shot and a videogame gunshot, physics-wise, is shown. It's a very high tech show: 3 projectors, several computers, and real time video processing (courtesy of a major grant from the Bel Geddes Foundation)".
 
The creative team includes director and video designer Brian Rogers, set designer David Evans Morris, lighting designer Beth Turomasha and costume designer Maggie Dick.  It also features audio by Chris Peck, and fight direction by Timothy Haskell.

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased by calling Theatermania at 212.352.3101 or by going to www.theatermania.com.  Thursdays will be "Pay What You Can" for Queens residents.  For more information, please visit www.chocolatefactorytheater.org. 
 

 

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