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REPURPOSING
Video still by Jay Scheib
Jay Scheib
WORLD OF WIRES
8:00pm-9:00pm | Segal Center
“Mixing multimedia with deadpan-cool (and very sexy) actors, Scheib is forging new ways of seeing drama.”
– Time Out New York
World of Wires is the third and final installment of Scheib's science vs. fiction performance trilogy: Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems. Inspired by Daniel Galouye's science fiction masterpiece Simulacron-3 and Fassbinder's sci-fi television series Welt am Draht, this piece chronicles the development of a computer simulation that is so real that it becomes impossible to distinguish between the fiction of the simulation and reality. Heavily inspired by Nick Bostrom's white paper Are you living in a computer simulation?, World of Wires is an all-bets-are-off joyride into the startling possibility that you just might be ones and zeros in someone else's immaculately programmed world.
Video still by Jay Scheib
Artists Involved
Adapted and Directed by Jay Scheib; Performed by Sarita Choudhury, Mikéah Ernest Jennings, Jon Morris, Ayesha Ngaujah, Tanya Selvaratnam; Scenic Design by Sara Brown; Costumes by Oana Botez-Ban; Sound Design by Anouschka Trocker; Video and Effects by Josh Higgason; Assistant Director Kasper Sejerson; Stage Managed by Susan Wilson
Video still by Jay Scheib
Lead Artist
Jay Scheib and co. have begun work on World of WIRES, which premieres in January 2012 at The Kitchen followed by dates in L.A. and Boston. Scheib's last presentation at PRELUDE was two years ago with Bellona Destroyer of Cities (2010-11), which played at The Kitchen in New York, in Paris at the Maison des Arts Creteil (MAC) Exit Festival, and Boston at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Also last season, Scheib directed Evan Ziporyn's opera A House in Bali at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival and Beethoven's Fidelio at the Saarländisches Staastheater in Saarbrücken, Germany. Other recent works include Brecht's Puntila und sein Knecht Matti at the Stadt Theater Augsburg and Elfriede Jelinek's groundbreaking Bambiland at the Norwegian Theater Academy. Scheib is Professor for Music and Theater Arts at MIT. Later this year Scheib directs a new ballet, The Seven Sages, with choreographer Yin Mei in Hong Kong.
Additional Credits
Made possible by the generous support of the Guggenheim Fellowship, New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Theater Commissioning Program, the Greenwall Foundation, Agnes Gund Foundation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Council for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Arts Center on Governor’s Island, and The Kitchen.
Upcoming
Premieres at The Kitchen, NY, January 2012
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OCT. 12
Big Dance Theater & Sibyl Kempson 
Opening Night Cocktails
OCT. 13
Young Jean Lee's Theater Company 
OCT. 14