A new 360-degree immersive video, animation, and projection mapping environment solo theater production.

Paul Herwig presents Prairie Fire, a new original multi-media theater production that is a fantastical and haunting tribute to childhood. Both melancholic and hopeful, this 360-degree immersive video, animation, and projection mapping show follows a young boy born among the Midwest prairies, along with the wonder and travails of growing up. When confronted by the chaos and division of the world, he faces a choice: become an Agent for Destruction, or a Warrior against the Darkness.

The production will be performed in a “white box” raw studio space at St Paul Ballet Studios (in the Fairview Business Center), surrounding the audience in an environment of live animation and video projections, drawn from family albums, historical documentation from a small Minnesota prairie town, and that of contemporary events.

INFORMATION:

Dates: January 23-24 at 8pm, January 25 at 7pm
Venue: St Paul Ballet Studios, 655 Fairview Ave N, St Paul, MN 55104
(in the Fairview Business Center)
Tickets: Suggested donation $10-30 per person
https://ticketstripe.com/prairiefire

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Paul Herwig is a 26-year veteran of the local alternative performing arts community and has been providing live animated projection art for events for the past six years under the name Future Projections (https://www.futureprojections.net/). He is also a McKnight Theater Fellow, and is a recipient of a dozen individual artist awards from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Jerome Foundation.