Theatre

May 01—18, 2025

Utopian Hotline

Presented by ArtsEmerson & Museum of Science, Produced in association with Octopus Theatricals / from USA

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“An understated yet engrossing… musical on a variety of scientific mysteries”

— The New Yorker

Speak 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.

Info

Venue

Museum of Science, Planetarium
1 Museum Of Science Driveway, Boston, MA 02114

Dates

May 01, 2025 - May 18, 2025

Tickets

Details

45 minutes (no intermission)

Artists

Company

Theater Mitu

Founded in 1997, Theater Mitu has earned a wide reputation as an adventuresome and dynamic ensemble of artists. Under the leadership of Founding Artistic Director Rubén Polendo, the Company is committed to challenging the parameters of theater research and practice. Theater Mitu’s work is situated in the tension between acting and performance, theatrical design and installation, multi-media and interactive technology. Their practice investigates trans-global performance; interdisciplinary collaborative models; the performativity of non-violence; the geopolitics of objects; contemporary mythology; artist training, ritual and the sacred. Its considerable body of work has taken on a variety of forms: developmental and production work with some of the world’s leading theatrical innovators, research and pedagogical work with renowned universities and conservatories, engagement with non-theatrical communities, and international trainings and research initiatives with leaders in the field.

Presented by

ArtsEmerson & Museum Of Science

Produced in association with

Octopus Theatricals

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Buzz

“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

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Utopian Hotline Technical Residency Photos

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