Conversation with 600 Highwaymen - Post-performance Q&A

Please join us for a discussion with 600 Highwaymen’s Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone, the creators of A Thousand Ways, moderator by Fiona Selmi ’21.

Zoom Link.

Meeting ID: 996 4645 2587
Passcode: 080125

A Thousand Ways is a work of theatre in three parts. Conceived and created to respond to the evolving experience of COVID-19 social distancing —Part I is a phone conversation, Part II is a socially-distanced encounter and Part III is a public convening once it’s safe to do so. In each part, you are both the actor and the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. With just two people, a telephone, a table, and a stack of cards, a new type of theatre emerges—one in which we are invited to depend on the kindness of strangers as we forge ahead into a brave new world.

Part II – A Meeting. Two Individuals.
Face-to-Face. A Fleeting Connection.
THU–SAT | FEB 11 –13

Part III – A Congregation. All of Us.
A Shared Score. A New Beginning.
Coming in 2021/2022

Since 2009, 600 HIGHWAYMEN (Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone) have been making theatre that explores the poignancy of people coming together around a work of art. Their work exists at the intersection of theatre, dance, contemporary performance, and civic encounter, consistently mining the question of what makes up the social sphere, and what it takes from each of us to maintain it. 600 HIGHWAYMEN has been called the “the standard-bearers of contemporary theatre-making” by Le Monde, and “one of New York’s best nontraditional theatre companies” by The New Yorker. They have received commissions from The Public Theater, Temple Contemporary, Salzburg Festival, and Festival theatreformen. They are recipients of an Obie Award and Switzerland’s ZKB Patronize Prize, and nominees for Austria’s Nestroy Prize, the prestigious Alpert Award and NYC’s Bessie Award. In 2016, Browde and Silverstone were named artist fellows by the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype
Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong
Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher
Part One Sound Design: Stanley Mathabane

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, and Festival Theaterformen, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporary at Temple University, USA. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.*