Innovators Showcase 2020 – Featuring Analog Theatre

Through the Innovator Incubator, PlayGround supports the launch of brand-new artist-driven innovative theatre companies and the development of innovative new works for the stage. This year-long intensive program culminates in an annual new works festival, the Innovators Showcase. This year, we have taken the opportunity of digital theater in a pandemic age and expanded our programming to allow all our second year cohort the chance to produce and present their own projects of whatever scope they pleased. Resultantly, this year’s 2020 Innovator Showcase is a robust three weeks of live-streamed performance, developmental readings, digital web series, and live panels on artistry and activism all free to watch from the comfort of your home! 

In this post, we feature the launch of Analog Theatre and their debut production of How Do You Plug In an Analog?

Analog Theatre’s mission is to create collaborative, out-of-the-box, multidisciplinary, multi-sensory storytelling, devising performances that rely on performing skills and collective acts of actor-audience imagination, rather than literal representations of reality onstage. Rather than competing with film to faithfully reproduce realism, Analog seeks to create rich settings, stories, and characters from empty space and bring alive objects that are inanimate. We believe simpler styles of storytelling can provide a catalyst for increased hope and imagination that is gravely needed in the world today. We use bodies, voices, instruments, audience interactions, improvisation, poetry, puppetry, maskwork, and mime, to create back-to-basics theatre magic.

How Do You Plug In an Analog? is a one-hour, live, multi-media discussion between Analog Theatre founders Elissa Stebbins and Rebecca Pingree and invited artistic guests, discussing styles and principles of physical theatremaking, and translating those practices into personal, anti-racist work and development. The event will include devised live performance, filmed performance, and conversation with the audience.

Thurs, Nov 19th, 7pm PT: Analog Theatre presents
How Do You Plug In An Analog?

To register to watch the On Demand recording of this performance, click here!