Hall of Haunts
Part haunted house, part poly-sensory psychodrama, the Hall of Haunts took groups through New Jersey’s historic Rutherfurd Hall the weekend before Halloween.
One Way Red
Witness one woman spacewalk through a sea of red Netflix sleeves and iron oxide dust.
Bartram’s Robot
Bartram's Robot asks us to consider, "what is the natural world? And am I, being a robot, unnatural?"
Let the Dog See the Rabbit
Starting out with a story about employees at a natural history museum, the human plot fades into the background as the animals take over.
Gwendolyn Makes Old Woman
An award-winning science fiction author’s world is turned upside down by a surprise visit from her biggest fan: an agender being from another galaxy.
Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge
A temporary installation on a vacant lot in South Philly which served as a platform to catalyze local knowledge in a rapidly evolving and fractured neighborhood.
Seeing the Beast
Part fairytale, part nature documentary, and part Brechtian interrogation of the stories we tell about animals.
99 Breakups
A site-specific journey through intimate moments of erosion set amidst The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts’ historic building and collection.
Go Long Big Softie
A clown show of two adult boys struggling to escape the powerful fiction about what it takes to be a man.
Meet the Mediums
An impossible comedy about a family of fortune-tellers, time-wrinklers, spiritualists, or mediums, who live an eccentric life in the tumultuous 1930s.
Mining the Mine of the Mind for Minderals
A TED talk gone wild on the scientific and spiritual dimensions of consciousness.
The Sea of Tranquility
An eccentric preacher, a star-gazing lawyer, a mysterious servant girl, and some wayward wildlife are the stars of The Sea of Tranquility, a play set across many centuries of New Jersey’s folkloric history and performed for the grand rooms of Rutherfurd Hall.
Sense Science
“Do you have a? Would you like a?” and “Proto Lear” were both part of an evening of work created by HPI’s 2011 class.