Ran Xia's ECHO To Play The Tank

The Tank (Meghan Finn and Rosalind Grush, Artistic Directors) will present The Arctic Group's ECHO, written and audio designed by Ran Xia and directed by Nicholas Orvis at The Tank (312 West 36th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues) April 12-21. Performances will be Thursday through Saturday at 7pm. Tickets ($15) are available for advance purchase at www.thetanknyc.org.

The journey of Echo and Narcissus, in search of lost things. Part of Echo is an audio documentary, a sound sculpture that is a collage of more than a few dozen voices, created after numerous interviews with people from all over the world, on the subject of loss. The other part of Echo is a re-imagined story of Echo and Narcissus. We invite you to the place where all the lost things go, as the Echo and Narcissus search for what they've lost. Echo is the 2nd installment of Ran Xia's audio series (Harmony, Echo, Siren).
Echo features Andrea Lopez as Echo and Max Henry as Narcissus with Audio Design by Ran Xia and Voice Over by Belinda Adam, Ashley Adelman, Janet Admasu, Jessie Atkinson, Emily Cordes, Beth Diesch, Christopher Fok, Jake Geary, Jeff Gladstone, Robert Gonyo, Colleen Hughes, Finn Kilgore, Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li, Andrea Lopez, Savannah Lloyd, Ryan McCurdy, Sylvain Panet-Raymond, Laure Porche, Hope Rehak, Rosanne Rubino, Kori Rushton, Jim Sherwood, Megan Smith, Jordan G. Teicher, Simi Tamar Toledano, Monica Trausch, Priyanka Voruganti, and Heloise Wilson.

The Arctic Group (est. 2016) is a (mostly) theatre collective. We create a space for the harmonious, explorative destruction. We resist comfort and convenience. Failure is our common language. Disclaimers are our enemy. With an appetite for the irregular and an itch for the bizarre, we collide, connect, collaborate, and create. Pick a snowflake out of an avalanche. Take the polar bear plunge. Host of the first International Fridge Festival at IRT. www.thearcticgroup.org/echo

"It is clear that The Arctic Group is an intelligent new theatre collective, making interesting curatorial choices and producing pieces that are refreshingly diverse in every way imaginable." Theatre is Easy

The Tank is a non-profit arts presenter serving emerging artists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas and forms of expression. We serve over 1,000 artists every year in over 400 performances, and work across all disciplines, including theater, comedy, dance, film, music, public affairs, and storytelling. Our goal is to foster an environment of inclusiveness and remove the burden of cost from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers and experimenting within their art form. The heart of our services is providing free performance space in our 98 seat proscenium and 56 seat blackbox that we operate in Manhattan, and we also offer a suite of other services such as free rehearsal space, promotional support, artist fees, and much more. We keep ticket prices affordable and view our work as democratic, opening up both the creation and attendance of the arts to all.

Echo is a fully produced coproduction with The Tank. Past Tank produced-work includes Drama Desk-nominated productions Ada/Ava (2016), youarenowhere (2016), The Paper Hat Game (2017), and the ephemera trilogy (2017), as well as New York Times Critics' Pick The Offending Gesture by Mac Wellman, directed by Meghan Finn (2016). Since its founding in 2003, artists who have come through The Tank include Alex Timbers, Amy Herzog, Lucy Alibar, Mike Daisey, Reggie Watts, Kyle Abraham, Andrew Bujalski, We Are Scientists, and tens of thousands of others. www.thetanknyc.org

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