Addressless NYC Reviews and Tickets

83%

(2 Ratings)

Positive

50%

Mixed

50%

Negative

Members say

Delightful, Slow, Quirky, Confusing, Must see

About the Show

An immersive game that allows audiences to experience the challenges of housing insecurity.

In this interactive, virtual, theatrical game audiences will make a series of decisions over the course of the game, which include: Will your character sleep on the street or sleep in a shelter? What do you do when you get injured on the job or run into someone you know from their past? While some decisions might earn your character money, they may also take a toll on your life expectancy and physical wellbeing.

Show-Score Member Reviews (2)

100

Delightful, Confusing, Must see, Great acting, Absorbing

See it if Saw the play for our sons birthday and it was wonderful, great for kids for over 12. Saw the play throughout the weekend of 1/13/2022.

Don't see it if If you are not realizing the facts of life.

Dated, Slow, Quirky, Fluffy, Banal

See it if You want an immersed play that wants to do things by vote. Fair acting and ok story.

Don't see it if If you want a traditional play.

Critic Reviews (4)

"'Addressless' takes pains to show that people experiencing homelessness are more than just numbers on a caseworker’s docket. Then the show shrinks them down to numbers anyway...More irksome, 'Addressless' doesn’t follow through on its choose-you-own-adventure premise...Even if 'Addressless' sometimes sacrifices deep identification to its game structure, it wants us to do better, and the show’s chat function provides a list of resources to enable that."
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"Imaginative, interactive and illuminating...This global premiere from Rattlestick Playwrights Theater doesn't gamify the lives of 'addressless' people at the expense of their dignity; rather, it builds emotional and ethical momentum as a multi-player audience-inclusive virtual experience that breaks the fourth wall through a creative combination of recorded performances, voiceovers, animation and real-time interactive discussion."
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Turning the plight of New York City’s homeless into a game is an iffy proposition to say the least. At best, the audience for the theatrical effort, Addressless: A Walk in Our Shoes, learns about the daily terrors facing this disenfranchised population; at worst, the interactive game overshadows the very same awful truths turning homelessness into a superficial search for more and more points.
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turns the effort to escape homelessness into a literal game…It is at its best when the actors play out scenes that help us understand the real-life conundrums… But also involves elaborate gameplay (with) the possibility of trivializing…a serious issue….Ultimately….“Addressless” does a couple of beautiful things. It offers yet another example of the flexibility, effectiveness…and theatricality!… of digital theater. And it turns a “them” into an “us.”
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Creative team

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater