May 01—18, 2025
Utopian Hotline
Presented by ArtsEmerson & Museum of Science, Produced in association with Octopus Theatricals / from USA
Get TicketsSpeak your message into the future with Theater Mitu’s revolutionary experimental performance.
Step into the cosmic conversation with Theater Mitu’s latest creation. Inspired by the 1977 NASA Voyager mission, which launched a vinyl-style recording of sounds found on Earth into space, as well as the uncertainty and isolations surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic, this experimental performance begs the question: if we were to send another message into the distant future, what message would we send?
Part telephone hotline, part vinyl record, and part live performance, Utopian Hotline uses real voicemails left on a public hotline to create a moment of community — inviting audience members to re-imagine our shared future.
This collaborative performance, done in partnership with SETI Institute, Arizona State University’s Interplanetary Initiative, and Brooklyn Independent Middle School, is a call for audiences to join together and leave an offering of hope for humanity’s future.
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Venue
Museum of Science, Planetarium
1 Museum Of Science Driveway, Boston, MA 02114
Dates
May 01, 2025 - May 18, 2025
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“It is a walk through the abstract ideas of time and space”
— Holli Harms, Front Row Center
“Theater MITU is what conceptual collaborative creative theater is all about”
— Holli Harms, Front Row Center
“Part sci-fi call center, part group therapy for those who long to connect, Utopian Hotline was a meditative and soothing experience…with the atmosphere so calming I didn’t want to leave”
— Asya Gorovits