EDEN is an interactive theatre experience that invites attendees to become characters in a near-future world in which a single mega-conglomerate, the EDEN Corporation, provides for everyone's needs—for a price. Individual decisions and collective choices add up to shape the course of the night, with several narrative paths and multiple possible endings.
All guests are invited to an evening at The Garden, the EDEN Corporation's premier lifestyle retreat. Upon arrival, they are assigned Personality Profiles (roles) based on answers they provided to a security questionnaire prior to the show. The security questions range from practical (pronouns?) to personal (biggest regret?), and allow the EDEN Corporation to personalize the event for each attendee.
The Garden is optimized for the pleasure of each specific crop of guests. Attendees are encouraged to self-actualize by completing their role’s objectives, and to participate in activity stations around the Garden in exchange for Points, which can be redeemed for drinks, snacks, and certain premium activities. But as the show unfolds, the stakes slowly escalate, forcing attendees to make decisions that affect not only their individual experience, but the fate of their fellow guests.
The EDEN Corporation provides over three billion customers with the tools they need to be themselves. But not everyone agrees with how they do it. Some attendees may find themselves at odds with the Corporation, while others work to further its mission. Mixing elements of a game, a show, and a party, EDEN asks attendees to consider questions of privacy, accountability, dependence on corporations, and revolutionary politics in a context that replicates and heightens the conflicts and contradictions of the modern digital world.
EDEN was created by the creative team of Hannah Story Brown, Jeff Fan, Jude Icarus, and Natalie Sandmann with support from the New York Foundation for the Arts. It debuted in October 2021 at Ivy House Studio in Brooklyn NY.
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