• Main Stage

Eternal

Showing on February 2–6, 2016

Playing at

Eternal, Daniel Fish, 2016 PuSh Festival
Photo: Thomas Dunn

Daniel Fish (USA)

In this cunning avant-garde piece, the subject at first appears to be love, but creator Daniel Fish has a few wild cards up his sleeve, and by the end we’ve experienced nothing less than a radical adventure of Time. Employing his background in both theatre and film, Fish has created a hybrid beast, giving us the unbroken time of theatre and the intimacy of the cinematic close-up. Actors Christina Rouner and Thomas Jay Ryan perform the final scene from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) on a continuous recorded video loop—for two hours. Their duty is onerous but far from rigid: the only rule is that they have to keep going no matter what happens.

Their performances are superb, and hilariously varied: sometimes the actors emote with the utmost seriousness, sometimes they stammer, sometimes they burst into giggles, all the while pushing bravely on. It’s riveting improv, stretching us out over time, making structure into poetry and blurring the line between performance and reality. Eternal is entrancing, funny, maddening and moving—often all at once. It’s a brave experiment, and one that pays off brilliantly.

Do yourself a favour and go see Eternal… Two extremely talented, receptive actors were committed to this theatrical experiment, and so was I.”

—New York Times Review

Eternal, Daniel Fish, 2016 PuSh Festival
Photo: Thomas Dunn

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Venue

Please note: This venue is not wheelchair accessible.

Showtimes

February 2–6
120 minutes (no intermission)


8:00PM (February 2–6)
2:00PM (February 6)

Tickets

$22 Early bird / $27 Regular

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Credits

Post-show talk
February 3


Creator & Director: Daniel Fish | Performers: Christina Rouner, Thomas Jay Ryan | Director of Photography: Michael Koshkin | Sound Recording: Patrick Southern | Costumes: Terese Wadden | Projection: Andrew Lazarow | Sound Mix: Daniel Kluger | Producer: Susanna Gellert


Commissioned by and premiered at Incubator Arts Project (New York City) | Developed through residencies at LMCC/ Governors Island & The Bushwick Starr

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