The Medium NYC Reviews and Tickets

67%

(3 Ratings)

Positive

67%

Mixed

33%

Negative

Members say

Great staging, Excruciating, Indulgent, Entertaining, Ambitious

About the Show

SITI revisits its first devised piece from 1993: a meditation on technology that's more resonant now.

For the past 30 years, SITI Company has created a new work almost every year. Now, to mark its final season producing and presenting new work, SITI revives its first-ever devised piece. Staged with minimalist potency and maximal physicality, The Medium asks: Who are we—and what are we becoming—in the flickering light of our own devices?

Show-Score Member Reviews (3)

Ambitious, Great staging, Entertaining

See it if fan of SITI and missed this piece.

Don't see it if like a linear story. this is repetitive and more performance-theatre. need a background on McCluhan would be helpful.

Dizzying, Indulgent, Excruciating, Dated, Cliched

See it if you are interested an outdated and very loud commentary on technology.

Don't see it if you are not interested a confusing and excruciating presentation on complicated ideas unfortunately reduced to a semi Luddite level. Read more

100

Great acting, Great staging, Relevant, Masterful, Intelligent

See it if If you love intelligent layered theater performed exquisitely by a talented company of performers.

Don't see it if you're not a fan of the BAM Next Wave adventurious style of theater.

Critic Reviews (1)

"It’s slightly puzzling that this smartly designed production, at BAM Fisher, feels labored...We are by now so long steeped in technology, and in talk of it, that the play may be most useful for thinking about how we arrived at this point...The same may apply to 'The Medium' as a means of understanding SITI Company...There is a stubborn sense of watching it from an archival distance, as if it were a live tableau in a museum and we were behind a velvet rope."
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