🔅 Happy merry cheery festive immersive everything 🎄
What a week of shows, reviews, announcements and more!
The VAULT Festival in London announced their 2018 lineup, Oculus Story Studio’s final project (Wolves in the Walls, a virtual reality adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s eponymous children’s book, created in collaboration with Third Rail Projects) announced its premiere at Sundance, and we at NoPro found immersive shows all over the country from Flint, Michigan to Hannibal, Missouri to Asheville, North Carolina to Mount Holly, New Jersey. And for the first time on the podcast, the first-ever three-person-two-city “after dark” episode.
Plus: this week on the NoPro Slack, we had two Ask Me Anything sessions with Jeb Havens of Escape Jam and Nick Rheinwald-Jones of Safehouse ’77. Whew! Look for their Q&As to be published here soon and even more AMA’s with creators coming soon, and get your Slack invite right here.
And as always, if you want real-time updates, follow us on Twitter at @noproscenium.
THIS WEEK ON THE PODCAST
Zay Amsbury, our man in New York City, is setting out for some traveling. Stepping into his shoes is Kathryn Yu, our not-so-secret-weapon.
In this AFTER DARK episode that duo join Noah to talk about, well… whatever we want to talk about. It’s one of THOSE episodes. (Which are a lot of fun.)
Plus: what starts out as a media rant at the end of the show turns into something decidedly more, um, spiritual?
SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES (NEWSWIRE)
Asheville, North Carolina: Acting Like Humans
Austin, Texas: A Peasant’s Holiday Masquerade; Digital Puppeteering; Storybox
Flint, Michigan: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
Hannibal, Missouri: Journey To Bethlehem
Mount Holly, New Jersey: Holiday Thingy
NYC: Clarice’s Hour, The Doubtful Guest
Raleigh, North Carolina: Gift of the Magi
SF: The Color Factory (Extension), The Poetry Nap
Toronto: The Mess
Vancouver: Reassembled, Slightly Askew
REVIEWS
Baltimore:
Exploring an Alien Wunderkammer in ‘H.T. Darling’s Incredible Musaeum’ (The NoPro Review) | No Proscenium
How our visit to a wondrous museum beyond space and time quickly goes awry
London:
An immersive Indian noir, ‘Night at the Bombay Roxy’, takes over Dishoom | Flux Magazine
Neverland review at Theatre Deli, Sheffield — ‘an immersive adventure’ | The Stage
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NYC:
Review: ‘Counting Sheep’ Has Great Songs. But They’re in Ukrainian. | NY Times
Face to Face with A Child’s Untimely Death in ‘Letters in the Dirt’ (The NoPro Review)
Aiyana Mo’nay Stanley-Jones is dead and she needs our help
San Francisco:
49 Boxes Offers an Intimate Evening of Participatory Illusions | Per La Mente
STORIES
Oculus Panel: VR Today And Tomorrow | The Virtual Report
Immersive production of The Great Gatsby extends in London in 2018 | London Theatre
The Room Escape Artist Weekly Roundup — December 3, 2017 | Room Escape Artist
Electric Forest Announces Initial 2018 Lineup | Grateful Web
‘Capo’s’ Celebrates 5th Birthday With ‘The Speakeasy’ On Repeal Day | Hoodline
VAULT Festival Unveils Entertainment Packed Programme Featuring Immersive Shows, Circus, Comedy and More | Broadway World
Detour Dance’s ‘Fugue’ uncovers history of SF’s queer people of color | Mission Local
Immersive Theatre: Advice for Actors | Spotlight UK
Chris Neels talks to Colab Theatre’s Bertie Watkins on what it takes to audition and be cast in immersive theatre
3 Classic Games That Are Common Escape Room Puzzles | Room Escape Artist
Randomized clinical trial of immersive virtual reality tour of the operating theatre in children before anaesthesia | Pub Med
This preoperative VR tour of the operating theatre was effective in alleviating preoperative anxiety and increasing compliance during induction of anaesthesia in children undergoing elective surgery.
Will Future Storytelling Include Live Theatre? | Howlround
Oculus Story Studio’s Final Project Premieres At Sundance | Upload VR
Chivaree Circus’ BECOMING SHADES to Headline VAULT Festival 2018 | Broadway World
Spatial Awareness: Inside the world of immersive sound design | Audio Media International
2018 Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier: Crossroads of Film, Art and Technology | Sundance
The World’s Largest Starbucks Spices Things Up With Location-Based AR | VR Scour
The Voices of VR Podcast Episode #600: Jaron Lanier’s Journey into VR: “Dawn of the New Everything” | The Voices of VR
European VR Pioneers Join Forces to Launch New Venture | Variety
The Garden of Unearthly Delights Unveils Its Mammoth First Line-Up for 2018 | The Music
Harry Clayton-Wright readies tearaway teen, Rebecca, for Adelaide Fringe Festival first | The AU Review
THE BIZ
NYC: Getting Out Of Character and Cooling Down (Workshop)
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