FirstAct: Watch 11:11, a physical theatre performance on virtual reality therapy that devises new corporeal expression

Editor’s note: With  FirstAct , Firstpost is collaborating with theatre and improv artists from all over India, who’ll perform short pieces or readings over a Zoom video-conference call. After FirstAct’s  debut show  with Improv Comedy Bangalore, followed by Drama Queen’s  For Tomorrow , Theatre Jil Jil Ramamani’s  Haiku in a Bun , OGLAM’s  Abey Yaar! , Chanakya Vyas’  Leftovers , MD Pallavi’s  Salt , Akhoka Theatre’s  Between the Banks , and Alienstar Collective’s  Star Light  we present our next — 11:11.  *** An experimental physical theatre performance that explores virtual reality both as a realm of therapy and a space where notions of self and identity might be enkindled, as seen from the particular vantage of a young middle-class man from Pune coming of age in the internet era. Captured on camera in a single take, the piece is a response to the growing disaffection induced by the pandemic in a year that has pushed us online with a vengeance.

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