Opening Nights Performing Arts Presents: Manual Cinema in "ADA/AVA"

Opening Nights Performing Arts will host Manual Cinema in their performance of ADA/AVA in the Richard G. Fallon Theatre on Thursday, March 23rd at 7:30pm. General admission tickets are available to the public and student tickets are available to FSU, FAMU, and TCC students.

Bereaved of her twin sister Ava, septuagenarian Ada solitarily marks time in the patterns of a life built for two. However, a traveling carnival and a trip to a mirror maze plunges her into a journey across the thresholds of life and death. Set in a landscape of the New England gothic, ADA/AVA uses a story of the fantastic and super natural to explore mourning and melancholy, self and other.

MANUAL CINEMA is a performance collective, design studio, and film/ video production company founded in 2010 by Drew Dir, Sarah Fornace, Ben Kauffman, Julia Miller, and Kyle Vegter. Manual Cinema combines handmade shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, and innovative sound and music to create immersive visual stories for stage and screen. Using vintage overhead projectors, multiple screens, puppets, actors, live feed cameras, multi-channel sound design, and a live music ensemble, Manual Cinema transforms the experience of attending the cinema and imbues it with liveness, ingenuity, and theatricality.

To learn more about the performance and Manual Cinema, please click here.