The (Un)Double
September 10, 2025
7:30pm ET
Online
Tickets: $15
CultureHub will produce monthly livestreams of La MaMa productions using our new broadcasting tool, the CultureHub Broadcaster. Developed over the past five years by CultureHub in association with creative coders at NYU ITP, our open-source platform is designed to explore hybrid performance as its own medium. The software does not try to mimic what works in a live theater, but instead creatively translates the joy and energy of live performance into an online space.
Purchase a livestream ticket to The (Un)Double by The Useless Room, which which was developed at CultureHub LA and presented in the 2025 Venice Biennale. Audience members who tune into the livestream will be able to switch between different camera positions throughout the show.
About The (Un)Double: Socratic dialogue, psychiatric intake exam, dance/movement, and literary adaptation—The (Un)Double, inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella The Double. Taking the audience through the lens of several real-life icons of doubleness, it dissects the space between the self, the ideal, and the unreliable if not violent role of narrative. From Dostoevsky’s incisive characterization of the human desire to be seen as someone we are not, a complicated journey emerges by which one maintains the self.
How dangerous is the desire to become an image of oneself, and where does that image come from? Focusing in on extreme cases of doubleness today, the performance asks how does The Double pathology manifest in contemporary society, and is there a point at which it can be identified and rerouted?