The Vicky Archives

The Vicky Archives is an immersive theater experience exploring intimacy, (forced? compulsory?) vulnerability, the power of a shared history (real or fabricated), collective and individual identity. It’s a show about smart people seduced by the promise of being part of something bigger than themselves. It’s a show about being absorbed, blurring the sharp lines that define the Self, embracing something plural. It’s about the ways in which that is maybe good and maybe very complicated, and about how power dynamics emerge everywhere, even (especially?) in spaces that are supposed to be egalitarian. 

For the first time in its history, The Vicky Archives are opening up their doors to researchers from the outside world. A group of audience members have been granted one-time, special access to travel through a collection of memories belonging to and maintained by the organization’s peculiar staff members. Audience members are led through vignettes of archived memories, witnessing the elaborate rituals that are at the heart of the Archives’ daily operation,  and they come to realize their own experiences are being mined for the Collective Consciousness; and all of this comes from an idea pioneered by Vicky (the mysterious founder of the Archives, who has been deeply mythologized and whose own history has been turned into raw material for the creation of a single all-encompassing consciousness).