On a chilly Tuesday night in January, 90 New Yorkers filed into the wellness center Othership in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for an immersive “sauna-theater” event described as a first for the wellness brand—and, likely, for the city at large.
“Only this month,” the website announced, “The Death of Rasputin unfolds inches away through heat and cold, drawing you into rituals of confession and baptism.”
The production, staged by the theatre group Artemis is Burning, is a condensed adaptation of a longer production that debuted last May in an arts building on Governors Island. The original staging reenacts Grigori Rasputin’s life and assassination, inviting audiences to “witness the strange and shimmering magic that swirls around history’s original Bad Boy.” In the sauna version, however, Rasputin’s death is not performed. It was hardly a zen killing, after all.
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