“Visually dazzling and conceptually rich, World of Wires marks the final part of Scheib’s mind-bending trilogy, Simulated Cities/Simulated Systems. Now that it’s done, let’s hope the pioneering Scheib still finds worthwhile subjects in three dimensions.” –David Cote, Time Out New York
World of Wires was adapted and directed by Jay Scheib (MIT Associate Professor of Theater Arts) after the film Welt am Draht by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The screenplay is based on the novel Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye.
Reeling from the reality of people living their lives inside of machines, World of Wires is Jay Scheib’s new adaptation of Welt am Draht, filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 science-fiction meteor of virtuality. The play is an all-bets-are-off homage to the startlingly comforting possibility that you too might be ones and zeroes in someone else’s immaculately programmed world. World of Wires is also inspired by the works of Oxford University Professor Nick Bostrom, including his exceptionally compelling paper, “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?”
Performances at the Kitchen in New York were by Sarita Choudhury, Mikéah Ernest Jennings, Rosalie Lowe, Jon Morris, Ayesha Ngaujah, Laine Rettmer and Tanya Selvaratnam; scenic design by Sara Brown, costumes by Alba Clemente, sound design by Anouschka Trocker, lighting and video by Josh Higgason, camera by Jay Scheib and stage managed by Susan Wilson. Kasper Sejersen and Laine Rettmer were the Assistant Directors, and Tanya Selvaratnam was the Producer.
The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City. As the Tony Awards cover Broadway productions, the Obies cover Off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions.
