Subterranean Memories invites the audience on an immersive journey to a desolate no-man’s land in a distant future, where inhabitants wait for the end to come. Following a catastrophic disaster, a resilient community has established itself in the basement of an abandoned, artist complex for a hundred years. What binds these people as a community is their commitment to preserving their memories of certain things, concepts, and rituals that defined the old world and are now being replicated in the new one. The audience is welcomed to observe a moving memory ritual, as residents showcase remnants of the past era that have ceased to exist in their current world—a world stripped of handwriting, theater, birthday parties, weddings, human kindness, and seasons.

directed by Irina Kruzhilina

May 2024 Westbeth, New York

Devised, written, designed and performed by:
Alina Burke, Miranda C. Derossi, Sydney H. Green, Harper Jones, Neka Knowles, Lars Montanaro, Noah Murray, Stella Rea Barnabe, Rodrigo Pocidônio, Deana P. Taheri, Tomoka Takahashi, Michael T. Valdes, Jing Wang, Anamaría Willars, Colin Hirsch Wilson, Pau Zabaleta llauger, YuHan "Moria" Zhang
Stage Manager: Max Mooney
SM assistant: Lindsey Zinbarg
Photography by Maria Baranova

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