
Part of NY Theater Festival Winterfest
TUESDAY JANUARY 28 @ 9PM | WEDNESDAY JANUARY 29 @ 6:30PM | SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1 @ 4:30 PM

Save/Reload
Written by Dana Aber, in collaboration with Drew Aber
Directed by John Lampe
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Starring Drew Aber* as The Player
with Michael Deleget*
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Stage Management: Gabrielle Guagenti
Lighting: Brent Michael Jones
Avatar creation & animation: Tony Pugliesi
Projection development: Dana Aber
Projection/graphic design: Justin Torres
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*actors appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association
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STUCK. In a frustrating cycle that mirrors his own life, an obsessive gamer has exhausted every option but one to conquer and finish his RPG fantasy video game – stepping up.
Enlisting the aid of the audience in his quest, The Player uncovers new strategies to beat the final big-boss, the mysterious Shadow King. As he repeatedly saves and reloads in a desperate attempt to accomplish this task and vanquish the seemingly unbeatable final foe, he is drawn deeper and deeper into the game itself, until it is no longer clear where the game ends and his reality begins.
In Save/Reload, an action-packed video game saga comes to life; The Player inhabits his weapon-wielding avatar in an interactive multimedia setting, in which technology meets magic. Save/Reload takes the audience on a humorous yet poignant pilgrimage through the realm of video game obsession and the anxieties of achieving perfection, challenging The Player to an impossible choice:
vanquish the monsters that live inside his brain, or turn away from the things he thinks define him.
Hudson Guild Theater
between 9th & 10th Aves
note: theater entrance from W. 26th Street
