Inua Ellams. Photo by Adama Jalloh for The New York Times at Potterfields Park in London on September 17th 2020.
Pick a word, any word.
Prompted by audience suggestion, playwright-poet and performer Inua Ellams searches an electronic archive of every paragraph, sentence and word he's ever written and reads a spontaneous selection. Poems mingle with plays and essays, generating a performance that’s different every time.
An act of call and response that hearkens back to the birth of storytelling, SEARCH PARTY is uniquely futuristic and gloriously interactive. This “immensely erudite, multifaceted, and busy artist” (Vulture) invites you to join in the work. What will you say?
“It’s a luxury to hear Ellams… I highly recommend. Go hang with him.” — New York Times
“Like his theatrical work, SEARCH PARTY shows Ellams’s versatility and fearlessness as an artist who’s willing to take risks, especially in a show like this, which by its nature will never be the same twice.” — TheaterMania
“He impressed us with his talent as a performer, with his genuine love of theater, and his unique gift of bonding with an audience.” — Theater Pizzazz