410[Gone] at Atlas Performing Arts Center

410[Gone]

Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H Street NE Washington

Chinese mythology collides with Dance Dance Revolution in 410[GONE], the new play by award-winning writer Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig (Snow in Midsummer). A young woman travels to the Land of the Dead to bring back her brother. The only things standing in her way are the Goddess of Mercy, the Monkey King ... and an arcade dance game. Discover why SFGate called Cowhig "a distinctively original writer" when Rorschach Theatre brings this smart and funny look at identity and love to the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington, D.C.

Thru - Apr 15, 2018

Price: $20-$30

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410[Gone] Reviews

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Washington Post - Somewhat Recommended

"...As the story of Twenty-one and Seventeen unspools, another layer of meaning accrues to the distinctive details of the play's afterlife: those telemarketing calls the Monkey King keeps getting; the irrational number imprinted on an eerily generated banner; the fight sequence resembling a computerized martial arts game. All this sensory-overload zaniness begins to seem, poignantly, a metaphor for the disorientation that can accompany great loss."

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- Celia Wren

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

"...Layers are a deep running theme in Rorschachâ€™s production of 410[GONE], from the textual Easter Eggs to the multifaceted design to the stripping away of the main charactersâ€™ suffering. Sustaining such depth is an enormous job, but a rewarding one, that gives its audience â€œAha!â€ moments not only during the run, but for days after. Reward yourself by buying a ticket."

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- Alan Katz

BroadwayWorld - Highly Recommended

"...It seemed unlikely to me that a play set in a fantastical arcade, complete with the old favorite Dance Dance Revolution, would be able to stir deep emotions in an audience. But Rorschach Theatre's impactful production of Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's 410[GONE], directed by Gregory Keng Strasser, does just that. It uses unlikely imagery to tell a highly personal but universal story of trauma and recovery."

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- Barbara Johnson

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"...In the capable hands of Strasser and Rorschach Theatre, Cowhig's post-modern melding of Buddhist philosophy, Chinese mythology, digital-pop-culture, clowning, and family tragedy provides a genre-bending thrill ride that generates both laughter and the contemplation on mortality and loss."

- Ian Thal

410[Gone] at Atlas Performing Arts Center

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410[Gone] Reviews

Washington Post - Somewhat Recommended

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

BroadwayWorld - Highly Recommended

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

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