Icons/Idols: In The Purple Room

COVID Safety: All visitors and staff will be required to wear masks while inside the building. Timed entry will ensure members of separate parties remain six feet apart when inside the installation, and strict capacity limits, enhanced air filtration, health screening and contract tracing protocols will be in effect.

A teenage girl takes the most dangerous object in the world into the main palace in Constantinople. She takes a little painted icon into a place where all icons have been destroyed.

ICONS/IDOLS: IN THE PURPLE ROOM is a choral drama and immersive installation premiering at The New Ohio Theatre. Follow the young orphan Irene into the heart of Byzantine power as tensions between religious and political factions threaten to rupture an empire. Listening to the story unfold on their phones, a socially distanced audience will be guided through a space charged with birth and death, where power is fought over and exchanged, the mighty can be destroyed, and fragile bodies attempt to channel the divine. With a haunting score inspired by Byzantine chant, featuring the voices of ten female and non-binary performers, IN THE PURPLE ROOM wrestles with how to make something new out of a shattered world.


*Note: There are no live performers in the space