Inside the Wild Heart (2016) NYC Reviews and Tickets

74%

(17 Reviews)

Positive

65%

Mixed

35%

Negative

Members say

Ambitious, Entertaining, Confusing, Clever, Absorbing

About the Show

Group.BR presents a site-specific, fully immersive and participatory theatrical experience that transports audiences directly inside the world of celebrated 20th-century Brazilian author Clarice Lispector’s fiction.

The performance takes place in a house setting where the audience can walk freely from room to room, following the performers and interacting with the environment. Each room is an art installation inspired by an element in Lispector's writing. 'Inside the Wild Heart' integrates visual arts, film, music, and performance to embody the writer’s deepest feelings. It allows audiences to be active participants rather than passive spectators, and encourages them to engage them with literature on a sensory level.

Member Reviews (17)

Excruciating, Quirky, Slow, Great staging, Confusing

See it if You want an extended performance piece. You want to get lost in an abstract environment where you don't always know what's going on.

Don't see it if You want a linear story. You want a clear understanding of that story. Most of the dialogue is Portuguese & it's not an easy story to get.

Performance art, Enveloping, Experiential, Fascinating puzzle, Extremely physical performances

See it if you want an immersive, performance experience in Portuguese & English with English supertitles, & if you can let yourself go on the ride

Don't see it if you need plot, storyline,& theatre seats, or dislike performance art or immersive experiences, Read more

Critic Reviews (1)

November 11th, 2016

Cindy Marinangel

"This avant-garde show is fully immersive theatre, with six actors bringing nine vignettes of Lispector’s work to life in an artist’s loft...The standout of the night was the burlesque-esque dancer Carolina de Oliveira in a semi-sheer bodysuit and men’s black trench coat who tantalized the audience with passionate modern dance and a touchless tango with Ricardo Burgos...Serving wine to guests would have enhanced the experience."
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