PRESS
"without question some of the most frightening live theater around" -The L Magazine
NYTheatre.com's 2009 people of the year!
31 Down director Shannon Sindelar is one of NYC'S "artists who helped make this year memorable and exciting."
"Dusted with sprinklings of subtle humor throughout, this frightening and beautifully awkward commentary on the overmedication of society and the ends justifying the means is absolutely like nothing I've ever seen." -NYtheatre.com
"a surreal, psychosexual journey of ocular exploration plumbing the depths of obsession and the quest for Truth" -Culturebot
"no one will be able to take their blinking, squinting eyes off it...Yet it's the constant jittering and pulsing of Sindelar and Holsopple's breathtaking, original atmospherics that burn "The Assember Dilator" into your memory—by way of spots on your retinas and ringing in your ears." -Backstage
"31 Down's "Submitted to Pfizer for approval," refuses to be simply watched, but aggressively pulls us from our corporeal selves to within its amplified narrative. " -Bushwhack Festival NYtheatre.com
"Best murder mystery by phone" -Village Voice Best of 2007.
"retro-techy audio freakout...a rich, spooky tapestry of radio transmissions, voiceovers (as if we're hearing thoughts) and assorted sonic arcana." -Timeout New York
"31 Down is an amazing and groundbreaking company and their work deserves a broad audience." -Martin Denton
"Consistantly surprising, these two [Ryan Holsopple and Mirit Tal of 31 Down] interactive artists are doing some of the most interesting interrogations of the emergent datasphere happening today." -Douglas Rushkoff
"mind-shattering spiritual enlightenment" -Timeout New York
"...a living, breathing entity that will lure you in, wash over you, entrance you, and, finally, empty you out." -NYtheatre.com
"... reflects radio in that it too withholds vital information and allows the viewer's
imagination to fill in the vast crevasses that remain...the piece is a technical triumph." -NYtheatre.com
"One piece that does have some poetic resonance is an audio work by 31 Down Radio Theater, in which a voice that sounds a little like President Bush's sadly and humbly intones a litany of apologies for things he has done, from running for president to invading Iraq. It is surprisingly moving." -The New York Times
"31 Down played a dense, throbbing piece with film noir dialogue samples while he snapped photographs, ate donuts and used a coffee cup to trigger buzzes and swoops."-The New York Times