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Selected Press Features, Reviews, Interviews Selected Press Features, Reviews, Interviews Jay Scheib | [email protected] Jay Scheib completes his sci-fi trilogy with ‘World of Wires’ - ... http://bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2012/09/20/jay-scheib-... Special offer to continue access to BostonGlobe.com after September 30th Theater & art STAGES Jay Scheib completes his sci-fi trilogy with ‘World of Wires’ By Joel Brown | GLOBE CORRESPONDENT SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 PAULA COURT/THE KITCHEN “World of Wires” premiered in New York in January and won an Obie for director Jay Scheib. It sounds like a late-night freshman dorm debate after a marathon viewing of the “Matrix” trilogy: What if we’re all just bits and bytes in someone else’s computer simulation? 1 of 5 9/21/12 10:12 AM Jay Scheib completes his sci-fi trilogy with ‘World of Wires’ - ... http://bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2012/09/20/jay-scheib-... But Jay Scheib’s “World of Wires,” which the adapter-director is staging at the Institute of Contemporary Art this weekend, comes with a more serious pedigree. Scheib is an associate professor of theater arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and well known as a writer and director of plays and opera. He was a 2011 Guggenheim fellow and won a 2012 Obie Award for directing “World of Wires” at the Kitchen in New York, where it premiered in January. But the story line does have that mind-blowing feel. A man named Fred Stiller (Jon Morris) works for a corporation that has created a vast, complex computer simulation. A co-worker disappears and no one seems to remember her. He begins to investigate and finds that she has been deleted. His inquiry leads him to a disturbing discovery about his life. “The spark for this,” Scheib says, “was me trying to figure out where the first reference in science fiction is to being able to plug oneself into a computer simulation, where you actually attach your nervous system to a computer.” CONTINUE READING BELOW ▼ The quest led him to Daniel Galouye’s prophetic 1964 sci-fi novel, “Simulacron-3,” and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 adaptation of the book for German TV, called “Welt am Draht” (“World on a Wire”). “I became hooked,” Scheib says. He had already made the first two parts of a trilogy he calls Simulated Larger map / directions→ Cities/Simulated Systems, both of them WORLD OF WIRES edgy, hard-to-capsulize works based in Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 science fiction: “Untitled Mars (This Title Northern Ave., Boston MA Might Change)” and “Bellona, Destroyer of 617-478-3103. Cities,” which was seen at the ICA in 2011. 2 of 5 9/21/12 10:12 AM Jay Scheib completes his sci-fi trilogy with ‘World of Wires’ - ... http://bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2012/09/20/jay-scheib-... He began to create his own adaptation of Friday Fassbinder’s script, first with MIT students and later in a New York residency with his Date of first performance: Saturday regular troupe of actors. They began with Date closing: $25 exercises such as improvisations based on still photos from the Fassbinder Ticket price: http://www.icaboston.org production. Company website: Later Scheib incorporated what he says was his own most intense life experience into the script. “This funny fluidity between what’s real and what’s simulated, I didn’t really understand it until one night at a Duane Reade drugstore right before it closed,” Scheib says with a chuckle. “I was there to buy some shampoo, and suddenly I found myself with a gun to my head for the next 45 minutes.” This was near Columbia University in New York, a little over a decade ago. Scheib was caught in a takeover robbery in which two employees were badly beaten, he says. “In one moment, [one of the robbers] held the gun away from me and pointed it at someone else, and I swear to this day it was a fake gun, like if he pulled the trigger a little ‘FIRE’ [flag] would come out the end,” Scheib says. “But of course I didn’t have the courage to test that theory at that moment.” The perpetrators were never caught, he says, but the experience gave him insight into how much or how little the difference between authentic and ersatz might matter. “World of Wires” includes a “really intense” section in which the makers of the computer simulation demonstrate their product by creating a drugstore robbery scene in which the police arrive, shooting starts, and one person is killed. “A lot of video game technology now is actors performing roles, and motion capture is being used to make very, very realistic situations in contemporary 3 of 5 9/21/12 10:12 AM Jay Scheib completes his sci-fi trilogy with ‘World of Wires’ - ... http://bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2012/09/20/jay-scheib-... video games,” Scheib says. “We thought long and hard about things like Grand Theft Auto, where they’re simulating really high-adrenalin situations.” No surprise that this production — which the ICA recommends for adults only, because of nudity and strong language — includes Scheib roaming the stage with a hand-held video camera, beaming a live feed to onstage monitors. David Henry, the ICA’s director of programs, explains: “It eventually starts to dawn on some of the characters that they’re not sure if they’re really themselves or if they’re part of the computer simulation. And from that sort of lack of knowing comes a kind of existential humor. People break out and behave in all kinds of different ways, and they’re not sure if that’s who they are or if it’s part of the simulation. It’s kind of like the world we live in with the Internet.” For the audience, it’s a layered experience, Henry says. “Your eyes are constantly moving back and forth between the live action and close-up video, which is the experience of watching a film as opposed to theater. Your eyes keep going back and forth between the theatrical and the media.” As theory-laden as it sounds, Scheib and Henry describe “World of Wires” as the most easily digested segment of Scheib’s trilogy, driven by its thriller plot. “Up to this point, his narrative often could seem a bit opaque,” Henry says. “I found ‘World of Wires’ to be his most accessible work yet. It’s actually quite funny at times.” Some theatergoers might once have been thrown by the reality-bending concepts. But Scheib and Henry say that’s no longer the case in a world where movies often delve into topics much like this one and Internet avatars and social networks provide an alternative to real-world interaction for many. “It’s interesting to me that this was originally written in the 1960s, before computers were readily available,” Henry says. “Philosophers were already thinking ahead to what virtual worlds could mean and be, and now we’ve sort of gotten there.” That, of course, is the nature of science fiction. 4 of 5 9/21/12 10:12 AM Jay Scheib completes his sci-fi trilogy with ‘World of Wires’ - ... http://bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2012/09/20/jay-scheib-... “At this point,” Scheib says, “what we’re doing is really a history play.” Joel Brown can be reached at [email protected]. © 2012 THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY 5 of 5 9/21/12 10:12 AM Scheib wins 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship - MIT News Office 6/15/12 2:21 PM massachusetts institute of technology search engineering science management architecture + planning humanities, arts, and social sciences campus video press Scheib wins 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship Associate professor of theater arts awarded prestigious honor for mid- career professionals. Emily Hiestand, Communications Director School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences today's news April 11, 2011 multimedia Aircraft engineered Share with failure in mind Jay Scheib, associate may last longer professor of theater arts in MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, has been awarded a 2011 fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Photo: Dominick Reuter The prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship is an award for New design approach tailors From "Bellona, Destroyer of advanced, mid-career planes to fly in the face of likely Cities" failures. professionals, who are chosen from among Researchers find thousands of distinguished building seismic strain in Azerbaijan artists, scholars and June 14, 2012 scientists. Awarded to those Study identifies enzymes who have demonstrated needed to mend tissue "exceptional capacity for damage after productive scholarship or Scheib, an associate professor of theater arts inflammation exceptional creative ability in Photo: Naomi White June 14, 2012 the arts," the fellowships are designed to allow recipients time to work with "as much creative freedom as possible." From "Untitled Mars (This Title May Change)" "In Jay Scheib, vision, ambition, talent and a restless hunger for creating new works are united," said Janet Sonenberg, professor of theater and head of Music and Theater Arts at related MIT. "MIT is the perfect fit for Jay and the Institute is lucky to have him. He's utterly unique." Jay Scheib 1, 2, trilogy Theater Arts Reflecting on the fellowship, Scheib noted that, "It was awarded to help me finish a School of Humanities, Arts, and Social performance trilogy — Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems — that I have been Sciences developing at MIT. I have completed two productions of the work, and am currently developing the third, World of Wires. Part two, Bellona, Destroyer of Cities, just played in Paris as part of the Exit Festival and will be presented next month at the Institute of tags Contemporary Art in Boston.
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