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Psychic Self Defense

Opening Date: Sep 12, 2023
Closing Date: Sep 30, 2023
Running Time: 01:00
Psychic Self Defense

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Playing @
HERE
145 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013
Psychic Self Defense is a show that invites you into the guts of the theater. Audiences enter the show through a corridor draped with fabrics and dimly lit by chandeliers. Are they entering into a séance? No… after piercing these veils, they arrive at what is apparently a tiny, haunted proscenium theater. A curtain opens with great fanfare… and then another… and then curtains keep opening and closing, revealing and concealing scenes, objects and images, disorienting and transporting the viewer for the next hour. Strange creatures emerge from the shadows, protagonists are absorbed into set dressing and scenic ornaments run rampant. Psychic Self Defense is a journey into abstraction, allowing audiences to experience the mystery and mental spaciousness by way of that most basic of theatrical machineries—the curtain reveal.

Commissioned, developed and produced by HERE Artist Residency and Dream Music Puppetry Program.
Off-Off BroadwayPerformance Art
Audience Advisory: This show contains theatrical haze and sudden loud noises.

Performance Schedule

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY @ 8:30 PM
FRIDAY @ 8:30 PM & 11 PM
SATURDAY & SUNDAY @ 4 PM & 8:30 PM


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Full-price tickets:

$12.00 - $105.25

Accessibility

  • Wheelchair Info

    Removable seating.
  • Seating

    Mainstage seats 99 / Dorothy B. Williams Theatre Seats 74.
  • Elevator\Escalator

    There is an elevator that takes you to the lower level thatre.
  • Curb Ramps

    Yes
  • Entrance

    Houses two performance spaces - the 99-seat Mainstage and the 74-seat Dorothy B. Williams Theatre (down one flight of stairs); art galleries, and a café. The building entrance is street level
  • Restroom

    Located on both levels
  • Water Fountain

    There is a cafe
  • Telephone

    None
  • Assisted Listening System

    Some hearing aids.
  • Visual Assistance

    None
  • Folding Armrests

    None

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