Thinking Theater NYC

Ingrid Kapteyn and Tony Bordonaro. Photo by Nir Arieli Welcome to Campfire invites the public to step inside a high-stakes clinical trial. Subject , a movement-driven psychological thriller, unfolds in a near-future NYC where Memredux Laboratories, a top-tier pharmaceutical corporation, is on the verge of developing the first-ever memory-erasing medication. As two test subjects undergo observation in real time, what begins as a drug trial unravels into an intimate reckoning with memory and loss. Co-created and performed by Tony Bordonaro and Ingrid Kapteyn—fresh off contracts with immersive behemoths Sleep No More and Life And Trust — Subject marks Welcome to Campfire’s first live New York City production since 2023. The performances find a fitting home at 3AM Theatre, an incubator for cross-disciplinary innovation near MoMA PS1 (920 35th Ave #3N, Astoria, NY 11106). Blurring the lines between dance, theater, and sci-fi, Subject has been hailed as “a terrifying, magnificently execute...