A Thousand Ways: A Phone Call by 600 HIGHWAYMEN

A one-on-one phone experience with someone

Wednesday - Sunday, Oct 7 - Oct 18 | Duration 50 - 60 min | Time slots 15:30, 18:30, 20:00, & 21:30 | Time zone: UAE, Abu Dhabi, GMT+4 | International Timings: China Standard Time +4hrs, European Summer Time -2hrs, United States Eastern Standard Time -8hrs from listed times

Past Event

600 Highwaymen, return to The Arts Center with their new remote theater experience.

Discover a new connection in a poetic work presented by award-winning theater artists 600 HIGHWAYMEN. Take part in an interactive experience and discover what it means to create connection in times of isolation in this enthralling, and imaginative work.

“It was clever and innovative while being deeply thoughtful and personal. At a time when we are disconnected and isolated, the feeling of connection was profound” – Audience Member

A Thousand Ways delivers us from isolation to connection. With just two participants a new type of theater emerges. Discover how a simple meeting can build a memorable connection.. Everything we need is already here, just you and me.

You call in. Once you arrive, you’ll be greeted by a robotic host voice and then the other participant joins. The voice then prompts you through an imaginative experience with dramatic visualizations.

Designed around physical distancing guidelines, A Phone Call is the first in the three part series that makes up A Thousand Ways. You pick up the phone. Someone is on the line. You don’t know their name, and you still won’t when the hour is over. Yet, a portrait of the person will emerge through fleeting moments of interaction. You will work together, guided by recorded instructions that transform social interaction into an unexpected journey.

“I was really impacted by the emotional journey I took. It is also one of the most enjoyable “virtual” theatre experiences I have had, not imitating theater, but a wholly new form in and of itself. It is a show I would “attend” multiple times.” – Audience Member

In the future, An Encounter and An Assembly (parts 2 and 3 of A Thousand Ways) will also be presented at The Arts Center. The pieces have been created to work collectively or independently. You can attend only one or be a part of any two, or all three.

Biography

Since 2009, 600 HIGHWAYMEN (Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone) have been making live art that illuminates the inherent poignancy of people coming together. The work exists at the intersection of theater, dance, contemporary performance, and civic encounter. It also employs a variety of radical approaches. Though the processes are varied, each project revolves around the same curiosity: what occurs in the live encounter between people. 600 HIGHWAYMEN has been called the “the standard-bearers of contemporary theater-making” by Le Monde, and “one of New York’s best nontraditional theater companies” by The New Yorker. They have received commissions from The Public Theater, Temple Contemporary, Salzburg Festival, and Festival Theaterformen. They are recipients of an Obie Award and Switzerland’s ZKB Patronize Prize, and nominees for Austria’s Nestroy Prize, the prestigious Alpert Award and NYC’s Bessie Award. In 2016, Browde and Silverstone were named artist fellows by the New York Foundation for the Arts.

A THOUSAND WAYS by 600 HIGHWAYMEN

Written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone
Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype
Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong
Part One Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane
Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, and Festival Theaterformen, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University, USA. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.