From Aaron Landsman’s “Appointment” by Andrea Kleine, NYFA Current:

Landsman devised these Appointment sessions as a series of repeatable 12-minute pieces that take place in actual office settings. Designed for a single audience member who is put in the precarious position of continually making choices about whether or not, or how, to participate with the actors, Appointment turns the expectation of being a passive performance-watcher on its head. Working with three playwright/director collaborators — Brent Green, Sibyl Kempson, and Daniel Alexander Jones, (who created the Blondell/Julia piece, performed by Julia Jarcho and Stacey Robinson) — Landsman provided each of them with a short set of requirements: every appointment should include a question, a prolonged silence, etc., but left the writing and directing up to them. Landsman will alter aspects of Appointment as it travels to different locales — Norway, Austin, and Philadelphia are in the works — thus developing one kind of model for sustainable theater. Read the whole article here.