{"id":236119,"date":"2026-05-19T00:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/236119\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T00:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:03:11","slug":"photos-in-the-devils-hands-opens-at-new-queens-micro-theatre-zoopraxic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/236119\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: IN THE DEVIL’S HANDS Opens at New Queens Micro Theatre Zoopraxic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Helen Banner\u2019s new play IN THE DEVIL\u2019S HANDS starts previews on Wednesday. The world premiere production will run until June 13 premiere at the new micro theatre space Zoopraxic in Long Island City (first stop in Queens). Check out photos of the production.<\/p>\n

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Set in the Channel Islands in the 1940s, this intimate and immersive production marks the inaugural production at Zoopraxic, an innovative performance venue that blends theatre, installation art, film, live music, and digital immersive media to tell stories. In the Devil\u2019s Hands features live sound performance by composer Joshua Dumas, with Banner also serving as director.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After a series of attacks in the Channel Islands in the 1940s, local gossips target a young agricultural worker. Determined to prove his innocence he gets his friend to row him out to some uninhabited rocks and leave him there in the middle of the sea. As the seasons pass it gets harder to return and each night the performers get to choose whether it\u2019s worth returning home again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Playwright Banner, who is from the Channel Islands, was inspired to write about the region while touring the theatre space and studio now known as Zoopraxic. \u201cWhen I got a stage into the studio, it looked like a little island floating on the floor and I realized I wanted to write about the Channel Islands, where I’m from, and recreate for an audience the sense of being in the middle of the sea with an enormous sky and no escape from nature or yourself.\u201d She added about the new performance space, \u201cI wanted a tiny space to make really intimate theatre that connects all the things I am passionate about: narrative story telling, digital and immersive media, 3D studio arts, animation, film, installation art and applied theatre. Each thing we’re making is totally unique and designed to be as immersive an experience as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cast of In the Devil\u2019s Hands features Rory Greenwood, Umer Khan, and Phoebe Lloyd, with voiceover performances by Helen Banner and Joshua Dumas.<\/p>\n

The creative\/production team includes Joshua Dumas (sound designer\/composer), Helen Banner (production design), Allison Parker (line producer), Alleese Eldridge (associate producer), Courtney Seyl (stage manager), and Levvy Banner (production assistant). In the Devil\u2019s Hands is a New Georges supported production.<\/p>\n

In the Devil\u2019s Hands runs May 20 – June 14 with performances, Wednesday through\u00a0 Friday at 7pm, Saturday\u2019s at 3pm and 7pm, and Sunday\u2019s at 4pm. Opening night is slated for Saturday, May 23 at 7pm. Running time: 90 minutes (no intermission). Please note, there is no matinee performance on Saturday, May 23 and no 7pm performance on Wednesday, May 27, Thursday, June 11, and Friday June 12.<\/p>\n

Zoopraxic<\/a>\u00a0is located at 11-51 44th Rd, Long Island City, NY 11101 (Subway: E\/F\/G\/7 trains to Court Square\/23rd Street – first stop in Queens – 4 minute walk from train.)\u00a0Tickets are $15 (students), $25 (LIC resident), and $30 (general admission).<\/a><\/p>\n

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