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Utopian Hotline.

by Theater Mitu

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Introduction 00:17
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Interlude: Community 00:23
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Ada Westfall - Together Alone 02:56
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Interlude: Pretty Flowers 00:17
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Alex Hawthorn - The Last Perfect Day on Earth 03:38
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Interlude: Utopia 00:31
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Ada Westfall - Radiate 03:23
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Interlude: Science Fiction 00:35
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Alex Hawthorn - Arrow of Time 03:59
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Interlude: I Can See It 00:40
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Ada Westfall - Alone Again (Naturally) 03:01
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Interlude: God 00:17
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Kayla Asbell - Nothing There To See 04:50
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Interlude: Ascend 00:43
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Alex Hawthorn - Evening Dreams of Space Flight 07:30
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Interlude: Ignorance 00:27
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Alex Hawthorn - His Last Words 03:15
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Interlude: Heaven 00:06
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Kayla Asbell - Dirty Fingernails 03:34
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Interlude: Music and Love 00:31
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Ada Westfall - Dial Tone Quartet 03:34
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about

UTOPIAN HOTLINE.

A Telephone Hotline. A Vinyl Record. A Performance.

Is anyone out there? is anyone listening? Are we alone? In 1977, NASA launched the twin Voyager spacecrafts to try and answer these questions. Aboard both is The Golden Record, an artifact intended to communicate who and what we are. After 43 years and over 13 billion miles, this proverbial message in a bottle is the farthest human-made object from earth.

If we were to send another message into the distant future, what message would we send?

To answer this, Theater Mitu created a public telephone hotline (646-694-8050) prompting people to leave messages to the future. These voicemails along with messages from astronauts, astronomers, futurists, spiritual communities, and middle school students make up the source material for Utopian Hotline.

As we re-emerge from this unprecedented year, Utopian Hotline creates a moment of community. Audiences of 12 will gather, not in the darkness of a traditional theater, but underneath a 30ft video installation, on a pink carpet, around a communal table, to re-imagine our shared future. Performers, tethered to audience members by headphones, will musicalize and transmit these collected messages. Together, they will acknowledge coming into community as a radical action. An action that has consistently shaped this planet’s future. An action that reaffirms that someone is listening, that we are, in fact, not alone.

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released August 11, 2021

A Mitu Collaboration
Directed by Rubén Polendo

Developed in Partnership with SETI Institute, Arizona State University’s Interplanetary Initiative, and Brooklyn Independent Middle School

Conceived and Created by Kayla Asbell, Denis Butkus, Cinthia Chen, Alex Hawthorn, Scott Jumawan-Spahr, Michael Littig, Dima Mikhayel Matta, Justin Nestor, Rubén Polendo, Monica Sanborn, Corey Sullivan, Isabella Uzcátegui, and Ada Westfall.

September 3-26
MITU580, Bklyn

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Driven by a commitment to innovation, Theater Mitu expands the definition of theater through methodical experimentation with its form. Framing art making as a mode of research and inquiry, we share knowledge, spark dialogue, and strengthen our community through cultivating radical ways of reimagining our world. ... more

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