(rsvp)
The Satori Group
You may be reserved, but you’ll never have reservations again.
SHOW DESCRIPTION
Our stage is a table set for two, where the audience is also the star. After last year’s sold-out, ‘Producers Pick of the Fringe,’ hit iLove: The Satori Group returns with (rsvp), an exploration of pedestrian performance in day-to-day humanity. Participants wear headphones, which inform what you say and do, intimately combining reality and illusion until they are synonymous. Inspired by Rotozaza’s Etiquette and based loosely on Ovid’s tale of Baucis and Philomen, (rsvp) is an experience beyond description, erasing the line between audience and performer. You may be reserved, but you’ll never have reservations again.
ARTIST/COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
The Satori Group is an ensemble-based theatre company devoted to creating relevant, challenging performances while growing through consistent training. The Satori Group considers training to be an integral part of their creative process. Members consistently train in: Suzuki, Viewpoints, Grotowski, Chekhov, and Meisner. Since The Satori Group's conception they have created two original works. Their production of iLove: premiered at the 2007 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. iLove: earned the 2007 Cincinnati Producer's Pick of the Fringe and was nominated for the 2007 Cincinnati Entertainment Award (CEA) for Best Alternative Production. In January 2008, seven of Satori's eleven members began their along awaited journey west. Initiating the groundwork for The Satori Group’s residency in Seattle, Washington.
PREVIOUS FRINGES
Cincinnati Fringe
'AND THE FRINGIEST PART IS ...'
The audience is also the star. One of the few pieces you'll find where there is no genuine performer, but yet, a performance indeed happens. Or does it?
reviews
+ CityBeat review (May 29, 2008)
+ The Enquirer review (May 31, 2008)