Monday, March 20, 2017 @ 8:00pm | $27 Bereaved of her twin sister Ava, septuagenarian Ada solitarily marks time in the patterns of a life built for two. However, a traveling carnival and a trip to a mirror maze plunges her into a journey across the thresholds of life and death. Set in a landscape of the New England gothic, Ada/Ava uses a story of the fantastic and super natural to explore mourning and melancholy, self and other. Ada/Ava premiered in 2013. “. . . this Chicago troupe is conjuring phantasms to die for in an unclassifiable story of spectral beauty...” Ben Brantley, New York Times Critics’ Pick June, 2015 “Manual Cinema is talent incarnate” Helen Shaw, Critics’ Pick Time Out New York June, 2015