Denison Theatre: ‘Information for Foreigners’

The Department of Theatre presents "Information for Foreigners" by Griselda Gambaro

Notice: this information is for a past event.
Location:
Monomoy Place
Ticket Info:
Free to Denison students, faculty and staff. General admission $8, Senior Citizen $5, Non-Denison students $4. Tickets may be reserved by calling the box office at 740-587-6544.
Sponsor(s):
Theatre
The 12-person ensemble, wearing colorful makeup, sits on the inner staircase of the Mulberry House, where they are to perform their site-specific play.

“Information for Foreigners” 

  • Written by Griselda Gambaro 
  • Translated by Marguerite Feitlowitz 
  • Asst. Prof. Eleni Papaleonardos M.F.A, Director 
  • Assoc. Prof. Cynthia Turnbull, Makeup Designer
  • Reilly Harring ’19, Costume Design 
  • Assoc. Prof. Peter Pauzé, Scenic Consultant & Properties Coordinator 
  • Andrew Johns, Sound Designer 
  • Karie Miller, Dramaturg & Vail Artist-in-Residence 
  • Brooke Stiles ’20, Production Stage Manager 
  • Giselle Hernandez ’19, Assistant Director 
  • Sophia Menconi ’20, Assistant Director

The Department of Theatre presents “Information for Foreigners” written by Griselda Gambaro and directed by Eleni Papaleonardos. Focusing on a critical period in the history of Argentina’s socialpolitical turmoil, Gambaro’s “Information for Foreigners” deals with the theme of random and meaningless punishment at the hands of an oppressive regime, and the unwillingness of its citizens to accept the truth or to intervene. This “drama of disappearance” is intended for performance in a house recalling the spaces used for detention and torture. The audience is split into groups and led through a labyrinth of darkened passageways to a series of nightmarish tableaux of terror and degradation. As translator Marguerit Feitlowitz points out, the set up raises questions about complicity, about the moral implications of leading, following, and bearing witness. It is designed to make audience members reflect moment to moment not only what they’re watching, but that they’re watching.

Content Warning: This play depicts events surrounding Argentina’s Dirty War and contains scenes implying physical, sexual, and psychological violence.

“Information for Foreigners” is an immersive experience. Audience members will walk through a house and climb stairs during the play. There is no conventional seating, though the audience will have the opportunity to lean against the walls or sit at intervals on  non-traditional seating. This play runs approximately 85 minutes. While the experience is not physically strenuous, please make reservations with these details in mind.

Advance reservations must be made due to the audience being divided into groups of specific size upon arrival. Tickets may be reserved on this website or by calling the Box Office at 740-587-6544. Audience members will first meet in the Ace Morgan Lobby of the Theatre Arts Building where they will be divided into groups and escorted to Monomoy. Late arrivals will not be admitted.

The play takes place at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, March 1 and March 2; and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 3; and at 8 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday, March 6-9.

The guide and audience members watch from the doorway as Father leans down to be face to face with Mother, who holds a baby-doll.
A guide stands in the doorway, prefacing the next scene in a new room to three smiling audience members.
Two ensemble members as guards take a smoke break as the audience watches.
The 12-person ensemble, wearing colorful makeup, sits on the inner staircase of the Mulberry House, where they are to perform their site-specific play.
An ensemble member in an official uniform folds his arms and watches another ensemble member plead with another.
The audience sits around a table with an ensemble member, lying dead with a white sheet over her. Three ensemble members stand as her family, her mother lifting the dead girl’s arm up as the father watches, horrified.
Wearing lab coats, The Coordinator instructs the Teacher in the Milgram punishment experiment. Between them sits the Pupil, who is strapped down to a chair and wearing electrodes on his forehead.
In a bathroom, a man in a uniform stands over a crying girl, her hair and white dress soaked. The man holds a revolver up to her head, giving her a choice.
Audience members sit at a long table with a small detonation device. The guide watches as an ensemble member excitedly raises their hands, looking to the audience member closest to the device.
11 ensemble members, wearing colorful makeup, stand on the inner staircase of the Mulberry House while one of the guides greets audience members as they enter.

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