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THE VORTEX PRESENTS

THE VORTEX ODYSSEY 

October 1-3 & 8-10 | Live Performance

LIVE THURSDAY-SATURDAY | SPECIFIC ENTRY TIMES 6-9PM

The VORTEX presents a whole new experience with a drive-thru performance installation quest The VORTEX Odyssey. Go on an artistic journey through contactless installations over the two weekends, October 1-10. The resilient artists of The VORTEX are using safety and distancing while creating something for those who are craving live performance. 

These urgent, unashamed performances view stories and characters from The Odyssey through an anti-racist, post-apocalyptic lens. Themes of today's shifting age including Black Lives Matter, pandemic, and climate change. 

Performance installations will be set up in a drive-thru fashion in the Manor Road IBIZ district. Be guided by Athena and challenged by Poseidon. Resist the seductive powers of Calypso, Circe, and the Sirens. Avoid capture by the sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis or the giant one-eyed Cyclops. It all happens from the safety of your car! Family units and quarantine mates alike can become voyagers, traveling from island to island on a journey with a puzzle component that will finally bring them home.

See the full schedule here.

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THE VORTEX ODYSSEY: UNDERWORLD

September 25-26, October 2-3 & 9-10 | 8:00 p.m. | Virtual Performance

The live drive-thru event will be complimented by a unique virtual component providing broad access to an extraordinary online experience. The VORTEX Odyssey: Underworld allows people in Austin and around the world to be able to share in the magic of the Quest, while keeping The VORTEX alive from afar. 

Live virtual rooms will open from 8 to 9pm every performance night. All portals close at 10pm. 

Upon purchase of a ticket, the user will recieve an email with the event link. Emails will be sent one hour before the gates open with a password for entry. Passwords are good only for the night purchased. 

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Event Details

• Date: October 1-10
• Time: 6:00 p.m.
• Venue: The VORTEX
• Website: http://vortexrep.org/

Ticket Information

• Cost: $15 - $225

Presenter Details

• Name: The VORTEX

The VORTEX creates and presents new, innovative performances—world premiere plays, operas, musicals, ritual theatre, and devised collaborations. The VORTEX transgresses conventional theatrical forms with multidisciplinary performances from diverse traditions. Music, film, dance, opera, aerial arts, puppetry, and performance art contribute to our vibrant theatre. We are an artist-owned and operated theater and have produced over 350 productions. We are proud to have always engaged in non-traditional casting. The VORTEX has presented work by dozens of famous cutting-edge artists and is internationally renowned as a haven for alternative performance. Our work has received more than 100 major awards and hundreds of nominations for artistic excellence in production, design, acting, performance, directing, playwriting, choreography, and musical composition.

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