New Paradise Laboratories Launches Virtual Theater Piece

Philadelphia's experimental theater company, New Paradise Laboratories opens its newest exploration of virtual and real space performance with the launch of www.ExtremelyPublicDisplays.com. A three-part interactive, cross-media, music and theatre piece, Extremely Public Displays of Privacy begins online today with Act 1, Extremely Public.

Audiences can access the piece for free from anywhere at any time and spy on the developing relationship between Fess Elliot - mother, schoolteacher and undiscovered singer/songwriter - and Beatrix Luff - performance artist, "cool hunter," and mysterious entrepreneur - through the website and on Facebook.

Act 2, Displays journeys offline and into the streets of Philadelphia beginning Sept. 9, as Beatrix sweeps Fess off her feet into a surreal game of escalating public dares. Audiences can download a free app or reserve an iPod to take a free walking tour in Fess's shoes.

Act 3, Privacy (September 14-October 1; press opening Sept. 16) is the third and final act. Fess offers her captivated followers an extremely private performance - part concert, part public revelation. Audience members will gather at the intersection of 17th and Sansom Streets in Center City, Philadelphia. The exact location of the performance venue will be revealed to ticket buyers at the time of attendance.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

The app for Act 2, Displays will be available in the iTunes store beginning Sept. 9, or by reserving an iPod between the hours of 5:00 and 8:00 p.m., September 9-11, 13-17, 19-24, and September 28-October 1 through brownpapertickets.com or by calling (215) 923-0334.

Tickets for Act 3, Privacy can be purchased in advance for $15 - $20 at brownpapertickets.com or by calling (215) 923-0334. Service fees apply to online orders.

Tickets for performances September 14 - 17 may also be purchased through the Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe Box Office at (215) 413-1318 or www.livearts-fringe.org.

Extremely Public Displays of Privacy has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative, the National Endowment for the Arts, the MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, The Independence Foundation New Theatre Works Initiative, and the Wyncote Foundation.

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