It’s no surprise that this is our busiest season here at NoPro, and this year has been our busiest by far.
To whit: we published ten reviews this week, with coverage from coast to coast in the United States, our Without Walls Festival diary, and an interview with Denver’s Control Group.
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ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK
As individual performers keight leighn (bedrumplai, snow fridge) and Elisabeth Stranathan (blackout, bedrumplaii)have an otherworldly intensity to them, as if they existed both in our reality and in a metareality just two steps to the left of our own.
Together they form the G8B4 — which so far specializes in one on one experiences for audiences in person and online.
<<DEAD.PLAY>>, their current offering, puts the audience into the role of a cheating spouse whose fling comes back for revenge. The whole thing plays out via email and Instagram’s video messaging, creating a campy emotional thrill ride that can be experienced wherever you are.
FROM THE WIRE: SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES
Halifax: The Direction of Ease / LESS + MORE
Troy, NY: YELLOW
NYC: Menagerie d’Arte
Chicago: All Hallows Eve
Denver: Denver Film Festival VR and Interactive Gallery, Escape From Godot
Portland, OR: We’re All Gonna Die
SF: Bohemia, La Noche de Los Muertos Ball
LA: Crimson Cabaret, Cages (Preview)
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REVIEWS
From No Proscenium:
Fall Back to 1982 in the Stylish But Succinct ‘Alt Delete’ (Review)The sci-fi ‘micro experience’ takes participants into a real life video gamenoproscenium.comA Questionable Verdict With The Barrens Theatre Co.’s ‘Bloody Bathory’ (Review)Story and structure overshadow other elements in the sandbox experiencenoproscenium.com‘The Silence In Harrow House’ Creates Terror by Design (Review)Puppetry and environment fuel suspense in Rough House Theatre Co.’s latest shownoproscenium.com‘A New Día’ is Just Another Day (Review)The branded experience at Wisdome presented by Estrella Jalisco comes off as waterynoproscenium.com‘The Gravermind Estate’ is Anything but Common (Review)Shelli Frew’s creative tale of a doctor and her creations delightsnoproscenium.comHitting All The Right Notes in ‘The Recital’ (Review)The team from ‘Amos: A Musical’ hits another high notenoproscenium.comGetting All Magicked up in ‘Basic Principles of Incantation’ (Review)How an immersive show transformed this Muggle into his inner wizardnoproscenium.comThe Best, Most Terrible Date Ever with ‘Red Flags’ (Review)LA’s Capital W brings the harrowing solo immersive experience with ‘Emma’ backnoproscenium.com‘Frankenstein’s Funeral’ — An Immersive Dance Macabre (Review)Atlanta’s latest immersive Halloween experience invites audiences to reach into Mary Shelley’s mindnoproscenium.comBricolage’s ‘Project Amelia’ Envisions A Software-Enabled Future (Review)The interactive production urges audiences to ‘take control’ of a tech culture gone wrongnoproscenium.comStep ‘Into the Dark’ with ‘Terror Vault’ at the SF Mint (Review)In its second year, the San Francisco event continues to dispense laughs and screamsnoproscenium.comWe Don’t Need Walls Where We’re Going: 2019 Without Walls Festival DiarySan Diego’s Liberty Station became ground zero for groundbreaking worknoproscenium.com
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
Here’s the Room Escape Artist look at The Nest 2.0 by Scout Expedition Co. in Los Angeles.
STORIES
From NoProscenium.com and our Twitter feed:
Picks of the Week (10.24–10.30.19)What to see and what we want to see this week!noproscenium.comControl Group Productions Creates an ‘Avant Haunt’ with ‘Cutting Room Floor’ (Interview)Denver Correspondent Danielle Look speaks to the team about the new shownoproscenium.com
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
Escape Rooms are featured on CBS Sunday morning! David Pogue interviews Room Escape Artist for the segment.
If you’ve played more than 50 escape rooms, consider contributing to the Top Escape Rooms Project where you’ll get to vote for your favorite escape rooms. This project is created by and for the escape room community.
THE DISCOURSE
Discussions and posts from Everything Immersive & Twitter:
Hollywood Gothique sparked a debate over the LA immersive horror scene.
A thread on McKamey Manor, which has been getting buzz again thanks to mainstream media attention.
A thread on a TED Talk about why theatre is essential to democracy.
NOW FUNDING
The Ladder — Hatch Escapes
The Ladder is a completely new take on escape rooms: a 90-minute, fully replayable and choice-driven immersive narrative experience. Your group will collectively take on the role of a new employee at Nutricorp, a vitamin company with a dark secret to hide. The game tracks your 50-year career climbing the corporate ladder — starting in 1949 and ending in 1999 — as you progress from the windowless mailroom in the basement to that coveted corner office. It’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying meets American Psycho.
PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
Jobs, Grants, Gigs, and more
Amherst, MASS: Once Upon A Crime
Auditions held in New Britain, CT
Jan 10 show, Oct. 29 auditions
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