Home theater. A play inside a real-live apartment, The Sublet Experiment by Ethan Youngerman is a romantic comedy about mis-taken identity. We loved the idea when we first heard about it and now it's been staged in a slew of occupied apartments around the city.
We heard about it through Brooklyn Heights Blog when it came to an apartment in Brooklyn Heights. It's also been produced at apartments in the West Village, Tribeca, Soho, Chelsea, UES, Washington Heights, Carroll Gardens, Williamsburg and Hoboken.
A visit to the play's website shows that they're currently on hiatus, looking for a new home-turned-stage-set. Has anyone been to any of these productions? Know someone who's produced one? And what about you - would you open your home to The Sublet Experiment?
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That plywood panelling is so NOT GREEN.
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it's actually a darkish brown... :)
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is that eddie izzard in the photo? is he doing experimental theater again?
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Ethan is a friend of ours! How exciting to see his play discussed here!
We saw The Sublet Experiment at a more permanent space-- someone gave them the use of an uninhabited loft in Soho for a month or so. Ethan and his crew furnished it themselves, so I'm not sure how much I can comment on the play-in-your-living-room aspect of the work, except that the play is more or less written to be in an apartment, any apartment. And what is cooler than having an audience or performance in your home?
I don't know much about the details of how it's been produced, but it seems that this might be a cool thing to organize-- one could invite all of their friends over and pay for a production of The Sublet Experiment to be performed there for your friends. Sort of like bringing theater to your home, in the tradition of the old salons or whatnot.
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