A fully staged workshop site specific exploration of the torture and politics of power in 1970s Argentina told through coded symbolism and surrealist vignettes. The audience is divided into groups and given a guided tour through a world where they are immersed in the scenes of psychological, sexual, and physical torture and challenged to explore their own complicity with the oppression of others.

– Link to 30 second sound teaser –

Written By: Griselda Gambaro
Directed By: Anne Kelly
Sound Design and Original Music Score By: Nathan McWilliams
Performed: April 2019, In a series of rooms inside Yue-Kong Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts

Information for Foreigners is a site specific script written by the famous Latinx playwright, Griselda Gambaro. Although it was written in 1971 and has found widespread attention as a piece of literature, it has only ever had 2 limited performances in university settings and a single professional reading in New York City.

Notes on the Sound Design:
Interstitial Music
The sound and music design is heavily influenced by the music from Sleep No More, traditional tango music, and various types of ambient music.
Clip 1 – Act 1 music
Clip 2 – Act 2 music
Clip 3 – Act 1 Layer demonstration (Video?)

Scene X: The Child Monster
– The Child Monster –

Scene X: Wet Girl
– Wet Girl Tango –

Notes on the Systems Engineering:
Simultaneous Action
With two audience groups in the show at all times; each group was often seeing separate portions of the show a time. This required each room to have independently addressable loudspeakers with two separate cue lists for each audience group, and a third set of cues for interstitial music.