April 5, 2018

‘World Without Us’ will be performed at Purdue University on April 13-14

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Belgian collective Ontroerend Goed brings the theatre piece “World Without Us” to Loeb Playhouse on April 13- 14, with performances at 8 p.m. each night. This performance is presented by Purdue Convocations. 

“World Without Us” is an elegiac, exhilarating monologue and the latest visionary work from Belgian collective Ontroerend Goed (pronounced ahnt-ROE-ent HOET), whose comfort-challenging pieces have stunned Edinburgh Fringe Festival audiences for years. In “World Without Us,” humans have suddenly, inexplicably vanished — freeing the planet from traditional rules and orders and prompting eons of biological change. As relayed by performer Valentijn Dhaenens, smartphones will go supernova with one final beep, mankind’s monuments will crumble in disrepair, and beasts and vegetation will come to reign the landscape. Neither a political polemic nor a parable meant to petrify us, “World Without Us” instead muses on a profound ode to human consciousness. It exposes what we take for granted in daily miracles of perception and progress and celebrates the awe-inspiring marvel that the legacy of all our achievements may outlive the planet on which we pursued them. 

Tickets are $30 for adults and $22 for children 18 years and younger, Purdue students and Ivy Tech Lafayette students. Tickets are available at the Stewart Center box office at 765-494-3933 or1-800-914-SHOW. Group tickets are also available to groups of 10 more. Call 765-496-1977 for more details or visit https://purdue.edu/convocations/group-sales/.

Initiated in 1902, Purdue Convocations was one of the first professional performing arts presenters in the United States. Each year, Convocations offers the region 30-40 performances of widely varying genres: Broadway-style shows, theater, dance, children's theater, world music, jazz, and chamber music, along with rock, pop, country and comedy attractions. With a vision for connecting artists and audiences in artistic dialogue and for drawing in academic discourse, Purdue Convocations aims to promote frequent exposure to and familiarity with human cultural expression in a multitude of forms and media. 

Source: Abby Eddy, Purdue Convocations director of marketing, 765-494-9712, aeeddy@purdue.edu

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