Animated image showing a seated audience and performers behind a string curtain.

TRAFFIC

You’re not IN traffic, you ARE traffic.

You’re not IN traffic, you ARE traffic.

Simultaneously a live theater show and interactive video game, TRAFFIC is your daily commute from hell! Audience members choose an irl toy car a la Mario Kart and must make increasingly fantastic choices in their attempts to escape bumper-to-bumper traffic.

Created by Christina Tang
In collaboration with Carsen Joenk and Anna Jastrzembski
Produced by Sami Pyne and Connor Scully
Performed by Joe Rivera, Nora Daly, and Aylin Eker
Videography by Jesse Itskowitz
Sound Design by Eryn Bogen

Additional writing by friends: é boylan, Theresa Bucheister, Mercy Corredor, Raz Golden, Jesse Itskowitz, David Levitt, and Milo Longenecker

Photos by ZANNI Productions and Walter Wlodarczyk.

Simultaneously a live theater show and interactive video game, TRAFFIC is your daily commute from hell! Audience members choose an irl toy car a la Mario Kart and must make increasingly fantastic choices in their attempts to escape bumper-to-bumper traffic.

Created by Christina Tang
In collaboration with Carsen Joenk and Anna Jastrzembski
Produced by Sami Pyne and Connor Scully
Performed by Joe Rivera, Nora Daly, and Aylin Eker
Videography by Jesse Itskowitz
Sound Design by Eryn Bogen

Additional writing by friends: é boylan, Theresa Bucheister, Mercy Corredor, Raz Golden, Jesse Itskowitz, David Levitt, and Milo Longenecker

Photos by ZANNI Productions and Walter Wlodarczyk.

Animated image showing people arriving at the show. There is a projection screen showing many toy cars in the background.
Performance History

Due to COVID-19, TRAFFIC was livestreamed from The Brick on January 25, 2022, as part of the 2022 Exponential Festival.


Due to COVID-19, TRAFFIC was livestreamed from The Brick on January 25, 2022, as part of the 2022 Exponential Festival.


It was performed live at The Brick on March 25 & 26, 2022.

It was performed live at The Brick on March 25 & 26, 2022.

A performer touches a single car in a neatly laid formation of cars.
A performer speaks into a microphone.
Three performers backstage with two production staff in the background.
A cluster of audience members wearing. party hats gather around to look at someone's phone.

2025 © Christina Tang | All Rights Reserved

2025 © Christina Tang | All Rights Reserved