Anxiety Is The Dizziness Of Freedom: Tisch Drama Stage

ANXIETY IS THE DIZZINESS OF FREEDOM is an adaptation of a short story by master speculative fiction writer Ted Chiang, a story about a reality in which people are able to communicate with their paraselves through technology called a PRISM. It follows the intersecting lives of NAT, who works at a PRISM rental, and DANA, a therapist, and how the PRISM affects their choices, and those around them. The production will activate and utilize the full text, casting an ensemble to narrate and play all the characters in the story. It will also employ movement sequences to illuminate the science portions in the text. Through the process we will identify and cultivate movement patterns and impulses that are authentic to each performer in the efforts to create dynamic choreography through shared group devising processes.