DORIS

part lip-sync cabaret / part magic show, “DORIS” unravels her delusions of stardom + exposes the solitude of addiction in this unflinching + profoundly intimate immersive PERFORMANCE 

WINTER 2024 · NEW YORK CITY · BASEMENT AT THEATRE 154

CREATED + PERFORMED - JOAN NELSON

EXPERIENCE DESIGN + DIRECTION - CORY SAVAGE

DRAMATURGY + DIRECTION - ANDREW J. MULLINS

photography - John lagucki + Curtis brown

makeup design - Tommy tafoya

wig styling - bella perez

scenic fabrication - Bryan hartlett

technical support - portia wells

PERFORMED AT THEATRE 154 - POWERED BY OUT OF THE BOX THEATRICS + CHASHAMA

straight out of the 90’s + radiating melancholy, DORIS’ apartment was a nostalgic, spatially intimate + tactile performance space. audiences became guests for the night — they’d kick off their shoes, cozy up on the furniture, raid the fridge + snoop (wouldn’t you?) — sharing a unique perspective from within DORIS’ delirious reverie.

with no “backstage space” the TRUE magic trick was hiding the technical support system in plain sight — electrical, sound, dmx + video cabling, projectors + atmospheric effects, practical + moving lights, dimmer packs + show control interfaces had to be blended into the scene, satisfying the illusion that the apartment was furnished only by everyday things.

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