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OCTET

Studio Theatre · Logan Circle

RunningJan 14 – Feb 22
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This is essential viewing for anyone exhausted by their own relationship with technology—especially if you're skeptical that theater can say something original about the subject. If you prize intimate, ideas-driven work over spectacle and find Logan Circle's independent theater scene refreshing, *Octet* justifies your faith in Studio Theatre's artistic vision.

Vladimir Sorokin's *Octet* strips away all theatrical machinery to examine how we've surrendered intimacy to screens. Eight characters convene in a church basement—that most analog of spaces—to confess their digital addictions through nothing but conversation and vocal performance. Studio Theatre's production leans into the conceptual audacity of Sorokin's premise: a play about disconnection that uses only human voices and presence to reconnect us. There's dark comedy here, certainly, but also genuine vulnerability as these strangers become mirrors for our own compulsive thumb-scrolling. It's a chamber piece for the smartphone age, urgent and unflinching.

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Studio Theatre is in Logan Circle. The nearest Metro station is U Street (Red Line), located about a 5-10 minute walk away. This provides direct access to the Red Line and connections throughout the system.
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