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Playable theatre broadly describes participatory, immersive theatrical events—embodied experiences where audiences have meaningful agency to influence the outcome—that bring together aspects of games and theatre to create new forms of art and entertainment. These works encompass a wide range of genres in which participants are an active part of the experience, ranging from forms of immersive theatre to live action roleplaying.
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Read the latest design thinking from our blog:
Beyond the “Zoom Play” — :robot_face: Creates a New Kind of Mediated Performance
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.
The Lesser Players Tale: Postmortem
by Lizzie Stark & Jason Morningstar In the live roleplaying scenario The Lesser Players’ Tale (LPT), a shabby group of Renaissance actors perform an...
How Marie Kondo Designs for Participation
By Lizzie Stark If you’re anything like me, you lost a week of January to Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, Netflix’s reality show featuring the titular tidying guru...