Venue: the Merrill Theater at On the Boards
March 3-6 & 10-12, 2022
Runtime: Approximately 60 minutes, varies by each performance
THIS IS AN IN-PERSON SHOW WITH SPACE LIMITED TO 16 PEOPLE PER PERFORMANCE
Proof of vaccination* or negative Covid test within 24 hours will be required for entry. Patrons are required to wear masks during the entire event.
*Photo of vaccination card is acceptable. If you do not have your card, you can access your vaccination record remotely by creating an account on the WA Dept of Health Immunization Information System, WA.MyIR.net.
“A Thousand Ways: An Assembly," the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Photos by Liza Voll Photography.
Obie Award-winning 600 HIGHWAYMEN present A Thousand Ways (Part Three): An Assembly, a timely and intimate return to togetherness. A Thousand Ways (Part Three): An Assembly brings together an audience of sixteen strangers to construct a unique and intimate theatrical event. Using a stack of instructive notecards, the audience will collectively recount a timeless story of perseverance—of audacity in the face of uncertainty. This elucidating experience invites participants to consider one another—individually and collectively—and the significance of coming together after so much time apart. This is an invitation. Will you attend?
A Thousand Ways (Part Three): An Assembly is the final experience of award-winning 600 HIGHWAYMEN’s triptych of encounters between strangers, following Part One: A Phone Call and Part Two: An Encounter. Each installment of the series, which has been experienced by thousands around the world, plumbs the essence of performance, bringing people together in the creation of a moving live experience. The work explores the line between strangeness and kinship, distance and proximity, and how the most intimate assembly can become profoundly radical.
The New York Times called A Thousand Ways, “Splendid. Funny and sweet and unexpectedly moving” (Part One: A Phone Call) and “a work of inquisitive humanity and profound gentleness, which over the course of an hour buffs away the armor that lets us proceed through our days brusque, numb, and antagonistic.” (Part Two: An Encounter)
Accessibility
This experience is enacted by you and the other audience members. The instructions for the performance are written on a stack of 4"x5” notecards, and audience members read what is written on them. The cards are written in English, and in a 15-point typeface in black and blue ink on a light gray background.
You do not need to have attended Parts One and Two to attend Part Three.
Previous performances by 600 Highwaymen
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March 4, 2021 – March 14, 2021
600 HIGHWAYMEN | A THOUSAND WAYS (PART TWO): AN ENCOUNTER
March 4, 2021 – March 14, 2021
You and a stranger meet on opposite ends of a table, separated by a pane of glass. Using a script and a few simple objects, a simple exercise of working together becomes an experience of profound connection with another person.
March 4, 2021 – March 14, 2021
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February 4, 2021 – February 14, 2021
600 HIGHWAYMEN | A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL
February 4, 2021 – February 14, 2021
On a simple phone call, you and another audience member – nameless strangers to one another – follow a carefully crafted set of directives. Over the course of the journey, a portrait of each other emerges through fleeting moments of exposure and the simple sound of an unseen voice.
February 4, 2021 – February 14, 2021
Credits
- A Thousand Ways
- by 600 HIGHWAYMEN
- Written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone
- Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype
- Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher
- Line Producer: Sami Pyne
This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, The Public Theater, and Festival Theaterformen. Part Three: An Assembly was developed through a residency partnership with the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.