Events

The last time the earth felt this close to destruction, a Canadian woman named Bonnie Dobson stayed up at night in a Los Angeles home and although she had never written a song before, penned the folk classic “Morning Dew,” a poppy glimpse of a world bereft of people but loaded with radioactive waste in place of dew. Although the Grateful Dead would popularize the song, they stripped of its original dark version, replacing “Won’t you tell me where have all the people gone?/ don’t you worry about the people anymore” with “Where have all the people gone today?/ Well there’s no need for you to be worryin’ about all those people / You never see those people anyway.” You’ll have no such luck in avoiding such sugarcoating in FLATSITTER’s virtual reality performance titled after Dobson’s song, “Morning Dew” extended this Friday and Saturday after selling out all performances last weekend at Torn Space Theater. If you haven’t experienced appointment-only, two-at-a-time virtual reality theater in the hands of FLATSITTER, you really should. And if you have, you were probably one of the folks who booked appointments last weekend. All good dates are really some version of an apocalypse anyway, you owe to yourself to strap on the headset and let FLATSITTER, with installation work by David Mitchell and music by Shawn Elliott Lewis and Brianna Battista take the wheel.