When: Four-week engagement starting 9/16

Where: Manhattan/Brooklyn Location Revealed One Week Prior To Event

Price: $75

Tags: #adventure, #roleplaying, #mature

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The fully participatory role playing adventure that gives you a character, gets you to dress up, and sends you out on a quest tailored for you returns for a limited run. 8 Players has had multiple sold-out runs, been covered in The New York Times, and featured by the Future of Storytelling Festival.

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If you’ve ever been curious about it: now is your chance.

FULL PRESS RELEASE FOLLOWS

Acclaimed immersive experience 8PLAYERS announces a four-week limited engagement beginning September 16, 2017. Tickets NOW on sale at 8players.com. In this rendition of 8P, only eight audience-participants are permitted per performance.

“Alarming, exciting, hilarious… Some productions are so compelling you cannot help but lose yourself.” (The New York Times, 2016)

Just in time for fall, 8P throws adventurous guests inside an equally scary, comical, and transformative social event: Participants — “players” — complete a questionnaire and are assigned a three-dimensional role in a film-inspired narrative. Upon arrival, the players, mostly strangers, unravel a story across a dark high-camp landscape with performers as they unlock twists. Strangers interact as protagonists and lose their inhibitions.

“Chilling. Impeccable. Camp classics mash up with mystery in this scandalous escapist experience starring you.” (Time Out New York, 2016 Critic’s Pick)

8PLAYERS cast, crew, and creative are alumni of Punchdrunk’s SLEEP NO MORE, Randy Weiner’s QUEEN OF THE NIGHT, Woodshed Collective’s EMPIRE TRAVEL AGENCY, BLACKOUT, and YOU ME BUM BUM TRAIN (UK). From producer Ross Tipograph, Time Out NY’s 2016 array of ‘game-changing influencers creating some of our most exciting culture.’

“Wildly inventive. Compelling. A new level of entertainment.” (Village Voice, 2015)

8P has been creating experiences in LA and NY since 2013. It world premiered as Opening Night of 2015’s Future Of Storytelling Summit (Margaret Atwood, David Blaine; previous years: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Amazon Studios), gaining word of mouth with productions quickly selling out and private shows commissioned for VIPs/brands for one hundred participants a night. 8P was selected alongside THEN SHE FELL and SLEEP NO MORE in 2016’s FoSTFest: “highlighting the best in immersive theater.”

Tickets NOW on sale at 8players.com. $75. Locations revealed after purchase. Sign up alone or with one partner. Costume suggestions will be provided. Audience reactions: “As soon as it ended, I wanted to do it again.” “Completely out of reality.” “Insane.” “It brings people together through a shared experience. This needs to happen before.”

“8PLAYERS is one of New York’s premiere experiences. Audiences connect in groups by starring in an explosively strange narrative inspired by classic, camp, and trash cinema. Surreal, unexpectedly funny, and spellbinding.” (The Future Of Storytelling)

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