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The Mysterious Fidi Coffee Shop That’s a Front for Sleep No More’s Successor
Conwell Coffee Hall at 20 Exchange Place is part of Emursive’s next production, Life and Trust — but it’s also a real café and bar.
Conwell Coffee Hall is an impressively elaborate bit of promotion for Life and Trust, presented by the theatrical production company Emursive as a follow-up to its hugely successful immersive show Sleep No More. A creative team has yet to be revealed for the newer show, though the performer Aaron Dalla Villa lists a workshop version in his bio, saying it was choreographed by the Kuperman Brothers (recently Tony-nominated for their work on The Outsiders) and directed by Teddy Bergman ( KPOP). As for the show’s source material, after buying his ticket on Wednesday, Zbornak was handed a slip signed with a quotation: “Let me dare to throw those gates open …” The line is from Goethe’s Faust, the story of a discontented intellectual who sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for unlimited pleasure.
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