Real World: Princeton; watch people live in the Lewis Center!

If you take our advice from yesterday's Weekend Arts Roundup and head over to see Pilar Castro Kiltz's senior thesis, Liminal, at the Lewis Center this weekend, be warned: you may also run into a band of puffy-eyed, sweatshirt-clad theater types dragging sleeping bags behind them.That's right: students from AMS 332/THR 331, Performance and Politics in the 1960s, will be living in the Lewis Center for the Arts from 11pm tonight until 10pm on Sunday as part of a communal living experiment.  Over the course of the next two and a half days, ten students will sleep and eat together in the building as they prepare an authentic restaging of The Serpent: A Ceremony, which the Open Theater Troupe premiered in New York in 1967. The play is an avant-garde piece that draws from hot-button topics, including the JFK and King assassinations and the Vietnam War, to retell the story of Genesis.  Students will only be allowed to leave the building for emergencies, and will spend the weekend working intensively on creating their final product.  As class member Josh Lavine '10 described:

The atmosphere will be one of a creative commune [to evoke the rehearsal style of the Open Theater Troupe], with no outside communication except for 2-3 designated times during the day. We will have highly structured, tightly scheduled days with designated times for guided exercises, to be led by volunteers from class.

Full confession: one of the members of this daring experiment is none other than yours truly. I'll be providing you all with updates throughout the weekend--wish us luck as we journey back to the 1960s!