Plays with Films brings together texts of the final three productions of Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery Zomboid 2006, Wake Up Mr. Sleepy Your Unconscious Mind is Dead 2007, and Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland 2008. In these three exhilarating and challenging works, Foreman turns to a meditation on the mechanical and digital reproductions of screen images within the discipline of theater, and thereby recalibrates and expands the potential relationship we can have with the live art that is theater. Extending the model of theater as a reverberating machine, Foreman's use of film in these plays is intimately integrated into the complex network of impulse generators, creating an unprecedented experience of multi-dimensional scriptural space, a new kind of total theater that effectively recharges and redirects the issues of consciousness he has been exploring with indefatigable intensity since the establishment of his theater in 1968.