VIRTUAL THEATRE: A rehearsal image of one of the scenes from “A Passage in Relief,” showing performer Kate Semmens. (Photo courtesy of the project team)

The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater at Princeton University is collaborating with Fordham University, Purchase College, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst on A Passage in Relief, a virtual theatrical response to Naomi Wallace’s play One Flea Spare.

Wallace’s play, about strangers quarantining together during London’s 17th-Century Great Plague, provoked this artistic departure about our own communities’ social iniquities, abuses of power, classism, racism, fake science, and questions about who can afford to survive a plague and the boundaries of gender and the body. The production, devised, written and performed by the students and led by Princeton faculty member Elena Araoz, will be performed live on April 26 at 1:30 and 8 p.m. Audiences will be invited to view and contribute to a living online image and chat board starting a week before the performances. The event is free and open to the public and will be open captioned.