a new work based on the best-selling book BLINK
by Malcolm Gladwell
“Visually arresting… absurd comedic style…. Yehuda Duenyas is irresistible."
-- The New York Times
“God knows literary daptations are tricky, so extra kudos to writer-director Yehuda Duenyas who turned George Saunders’s novella about a prehistoric theme park into a deadpan delight at P.S. 122.” -- TimeOut NY, Top-10, 2005
00:07 SEC. is a new work of non-fiction theater based on Malcolm Gladwell’s best-selling book Blink. 00:07 SEC is an ensemble work that uses event recreation, live psychology experiments, lecture, and explosive dance to unpack, second by second, the 1999 shooting of Amadou Diallo by four NYPD officers.
Amadou Diallo, a 22-year-old Liberian immigrant, was mistakenly gunned down in front of his Bronx apartment by four white plainclothes police officers in 1999. What is interesting about this shooting is that in the time it took four plain-clothes police officers to exit their car, identify Diallo as dangerous, and unload 43 rounds—killing him—only seven seconds were reported to have elapsed. This incredibly brief window of time holds an insane amount of information. What happened in those seven seconds? There was no evidence these four police officers were racists, and yet clearly the shooting couldn’t have just been a simple accident. Was it conscious or unconscious? How can such decisions be made so quickly? The officers made a series of critical misjudgments—what did the officers see that made them react so quickly and violently? Would you or I have acted any differently? This split-second decision-making process is a constant activity that flirts the line between conscious and unconscious parts of your mind—its happening in your brain right now. 00:07 SEC. will draw attention to a subtle and complex set of psychological conditions that play an integral part in our moment to moment thought processes, and our day-to-day interactions
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