David Byrne's 'Theater of the Mind' is packing in crowds in River North for the interactive experience.
David Byrne's 'Theater of the Mind' is packing in crowds in River North for the interactive experience. Director Andrew Scoville grew up in Elmhurst, and said working with the former Talking Heads frontman is as mind-blowing as the show.'It's a wild ride; the show is big. The show is complicated,' Scoville said. 'Behind all these walls there's a lot going on.'
'The technology is very unique for what's typical of theater because we're not just running one show start to back. These rooms have to be set to go for the next group as they come in,' Scoville said. 'It kind of moves more like a ride. You load up a ride. The ride starts to go, next group comes in. You load it up; it starts to go,' Scoville said.
'It's not scary; you don't have to be afraid of being onstage or in the same room with the actors,' Scoville said. 'We really do invite the audience to bring their full selves to the show. So when you are here, doing you, we hope the guide leads you through in a way that you really understand how to participate in a way that's gonna make the show really resonate for you.'
'I think there's a curiosity here. There's an adventurous spirit, with the people who are coming out to see the show,' Scoville said. 'I do hope that people leave and they feel that way, they feel like their presence here has made a difference, the small group they come through with, they feel some sort of bond with, unified with, and they take that out into the world, a feeling that they matter.'
'I think for a lot of people, theater, they're as likely to go see theater as they are to take clog dancing lessons. It feels like this weird offense other people do, right?' said Susan Booth, Goodman Theatre artistic director. 'We're so schooled in this notion that theater happens in stuffy dark rooms, where you sit in the velvet seats, you don't talk too much. Don't crinkle your candy. But theater is so much more than that.'
'He's like the ultimate welcome mat. People say, 'David Byrne's doing something? David Byrne made a thing?' I'll go see that thing,' she said.
'You know somebody had to step out because they'd taken a gummy before they went in. You don't want to do this show high,' she said.
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