With :robot_face:, Seattle’s Dacha Theatre manages to move beyond the Zoom play, creating a truly immersive and interactive screen-based experience that fully leverages the affordances of its platform.
Disclosures. 1) :robot_face: co-creator Nick O’Leary is a member of the Playable Theatre Board; 2) I’ve been collaborating with Nick and Dacha on an in-person playable theatre piece which had to be postponed due to COVID-19. However I genuinely liked this piece, otherwise I would not have written about it!
As live performance — which had all but shut down during quarantine — has developed a new life online, I’ve been craving…
by Lizzie Stark & Jason Morningstar
In the live roleplaying scenario The Lesser Players’ Tale (LPT), a shabby group of Renaissance actors perform an awful play called “The Lusty Queen” in front of whatever audience fate throws their way. The actors adapt their play to each raucous — and occasionally dangerous — audience. In the final challenge, they must come together as a troupe, performing for their very lives. …
