The Bridge Production Group
Last seen on Broadway with Nicole Kidman in 1998, The Blue Room is David Hare's loose adaptation of La Ronde - a series of vignettes that show how chance sexual encounters travel throughout class and power in society. The Bridge Production Group was thrilled to reunite Max Hunter and Christina Toth in presenting The Blue Room, bringing the company’s visual and abstracted aesthetic to create a multimedia immersion of light, sound, movement, and performance. The Bridge transformed The WhiteBox Art Space on the Lower East Side, creating an immersive visual art instillation that housed performance salons – only forty audience members per performance.
Cast:
Max Hunter Christina Toth |
Directed by Max Hunter
Production Stage Manager: Melissa Barry Lighting & Projection Design: Cheyenne Sykes Costume Design: Nicole Allen |
PRESS
"Intimate theatre at its best! Striking, controversial ... captivating.
Portraying various female characters, Christina Toth is purportedly the pinnacle of female sexuality and promiscuity with a genuine innocence. Max Hunter, as the various male roles, is the epitome of masculinity, creativity, and apprehension mixed together, both playing off of, and often times clashing with, Toth’s role.
When it first premiered many years ago, The Blue Room won much critical acclaim. With standout performances by both lead actors, brilliantly executed sets and costumes, and a thinkpiece of a story, this production is truly no different."
- UrbanMatter
"Intimate theatre at its best! Striking, controversial ... captivating.
Portraying various female characters, Christina Toth is purportedly the pinnacle of female sexuality and promiscuity with a genuine innocence. Max Hunter, as the various male roles, is the epitome of masculinity, creativity, and apprehension mixed together, both playing off of, and often times clashing with, Toth’s role.
When it first premiered many years ago, The Blue Room won much critical acclaim. With standout performances by both lead actors, brilliantly executed sets and costumes, and a thinkpiece of a story, this production is truly no different."
- UrbanMatter
"Sexy ... marvelous ... sharp and dignified." - New York Critic
"David Hare's intriguing and masterful play is now being presented by The Bridge Production Group in all its beauty. Everything about this production was brilliant, from the acting to the immersive experience; even walking into the bathroom becomes part of the show, as costumes are strung about as though the audience has walked into an escapade already in progress. When the show begins, Toth and Hunter make quite a few people squirm in their seats, bringing forth that excitement within us that we, on some level, can share with the characters on stage; they are also limitless in their abilities to invoke all the raw emotions they experience with each other. Toth and Hunter are also so close to the audience, we are like voyeurs watching something so in our face - desire made so tangible and raw, we are intrigued and made bashful all at once. Moments that are purely for the thrill of intercourse - two strangers meeting for the first time to experience the joys of each other's body - give the audience glimpses of the darkness and release many of us may be unfamiliar with.
The Blue Room is definitely an experience that every adult should have. It will make you feel things you yearn for, or perhaps things you have forgotten from long ago. It is definitely a range of emotions ensconced in the eroticism of a moment - a moment that has the potential to become something more. A moment that people need to now take the time out to experience - even if only vicariously.” - BroadwayWorld
The Blue Room is definitely an experience that every adult should have. It will make you feel things you yearn for, or perhaps things you have forgotten from long ago. It is definitely a range of emotions ensconced in the eroticism of a moment - a moment that has the potential to become something more. A moment that people need to now take the time out to experience - even if only vicariously.” - BroadwayWorld
Production Photography by Callum Adams / Design by Jordan J. Ford