ACTUA I at The Collapsable Hole

OBJECT COLLECTION 

PRESENTS

ACTUA I

Written by KARA FEELY and TRAVS JUST

March 12-22 at the The Collapsable Hole 

***For complimentary tickets, interview requests, and press packet please reach out to theresa.buchheister@gmail.com***

Entering their 22nd year of generating experimental performance in New York, Brooklyn-based theatre company OBJECT COLLECTION (Suppose Beautiful Madeline Harvey, HOUSECONCERT, Automatic Writing, It’s All True) announce the theatrical premiere of their latest work, ACTUA I, to be presented this March at The Collapsable Hole

 "one of the essential voices in New York’s contemporary theater scene” - BOMB

"After searching for how many years after I left the theater for something that gave me hope and excited me--Object Collection was it!  The first theater company I encountered that was a theater of "shaking in one's boots" imagination, yet of such stringent discipline that one could only bow one’s head in respect. Object Collection is NEW theater, NEW music theater that wipes clean the slate of existing theater, and begins again but with a mastery that is undeniable and convincing. It’s what those of us who had given up on theater as a serious advanced art form for our times can only welcome with relief and enthusiasm." - Richard Foreman

“It’s shows like this that shut down the NEA.” - Backstage

ACTUA 1 is a live-film performance piece that constructs an event that both happened and did not. An exercise in futility and concentration, the piece is named after Actua One, a lost film from the May ‘68 uprisings in Paris. Performers pace restlessly behind a movie screen erected onstage of the Collapsable Hole as well as in all the nooks and crannies of the theater and surrounding spaces. Spouting slogans for a missing revolution, actors propel themselves out of stagnation and boredom through complex object procedures and mental tasks. Speeches, music, activities, text, and images are projected onto the onstage movie screen via video cameras and microphones, where the audience can watch from a comfortable distance. The action is both intimately proximal and telepresent. ACTUA 1: an absent performance for five performers—the soldiers from Godard’s “Les Carabiniers” performing Allan Kaprow on public access.

Previously presented by Object Collection as a couple of one-off, no-fi gallery performances in 2011 (Presents Gallery) and 2013 (Invisible Dog Art Center), the 2026 production is largely rewritten and is the theatrical premiere.

ACTUA 1 will run at The Collapsable Hole (155 Bank Street in the Westbeth Housing Complex) from March 12th-22nd 2026. Tickets are available for $15 at here. 

Show Dates and Times:

March 12 at 7pm

March 13 at 7pm

March 14 at 7pm

March 15 at 5pm

March 19 at 7pm

March 20 at 7pm

March 21 at 7pm

March 22 at 5pm

All seating is General Admission. 

ACTUA 1

Presented by Object Collection
Written by Kara Feely and Travis Just
Music by Travis Just
Production Design by Kara Feely
Video by David Pym
Lighting by Celia Krefter
Performed by Travis Just, Yuki Kawahisa, Daniel Allen Nelson, Pimprenelle Noël, Nicolas Noreña and Timothy Scott
Creative Management by Theresa Buchheister 

Object Collection was founded in 2004 by writer/director Kara Feely and composer/musician Travis Just. Acclaimed for their invigorating blend of music and theater, Object Collection operates within the intersecting practices of performance, music, and theater. They have premiered more than 15 evening-length theatrical pieces including plays, operas, and live-film works. Their work has toured worldwide, and throughout the US. Object Collection’s pieces have appeared in New York at La MaMa, Ontological Theater at St. Mark’s Church, National Sawdust, Chocolate Factory Theater, Abrons Arts Center, Invisible Dog Art Center, Roulette, and Issue Project Room, among others. Albums have been released on their own imprint as well as the labels Slip Imprint/Warp Records, Infrequent Seams, and awavepress. Object Collection has received extended profiles in Frieze magazine, Pitchfork, The Guardian, The Wire, BOMB, and on BBC Radio.

Located in the West Village at the Westbeth Artist Housing complex at 155 Bank Street, the new Collapsable Hole is an artist-run venue for the development and presentation of a wild array of cross-disciplinary performance. Presenting a year-round program of experimental performance, the new venue is a collaboration between a group of six New York performing artists and companies: Mallory Catlett/Restless NYC, Collapsable Giraffe/Jim Findlay, Immediate Medium, Cyrus Moshrefi, Object Collection, and Radiohole.

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