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GAME PLAY brings videogames to the stage in New York this summer
June 12th, 2009

Check this out GAME PLAY: A Celebration of Video Game Theater at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I know I am definitely catching Adventure Quest in July. What a cool theater huh? Videogames are just ripe for the stage, since most story lines are over the top over-acted (see Metal Geat Solid).

www.bricktheater.com/gameplay

It takes place July 2nd to July 25th. Performances include:

ADVENTURE QUEST
Sneaky Snake Productions

 

The town of Perilton has been invaded by an evil wizard, and only our hero can save it! Cheer as he fights for the hand of the mayor's daughter! Gasp as he infiltrates the bloodthirsty Octopus Cult! Watch as he meticulously collects inventory items! Shift uncomfortably in your seat as the narrative gradually implodes! Glance around nervously as characters are brutally murdered for no particular reason! Despair as your faith in a meaningful, ordered universe is shaken! Evoking the Golden Age of home computer gaming, Adventure Quest is both a nostalgic treat and a glimpse into the yawning Void.

 

 

SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE: Rx
The Fifth Wall

Following last year’s hit show, Suspicious Package, The Fifth Wall is proud to present an all-new adventure employing the same revolutionary technology that turned audiences into actors and the streets of Williamsburg into a stage in what NY Press called “one of the best times I have had at the theater.” Suspicious Package: Rx takes our intrepid audience/cast into a not-too-distant post-apocalyptic future in which happy pills don’t make anyone happy, memories can’t be trusted, and everyone seems a little suspicious.

 

THANK YOU, BUT OUR PRINCESS
IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE: 
FOUR LIVE-ACTION MACHINIMA THEATER PIECES
Eddie Kim

Utilizing World of Warcraft, Halo 3 and Grand Theft Auto 4, Machinima Theater Auteur Eddie Kim

presents four classical theater texts, as performed by online video game characters manipulated by gamers live on stage.  Video games as digital puppetry!  Technicians will use several X-Box 360 consoles and laptops linked to each other and to gamers over the internet to control digital characters in real-time in front of an audience.  See the stories of Niobe and the Japanese poet, Ono no Komachi as never before.  A digital movement piece, chiptunes interludes and a version of Alvin Lucier's legendary "I am Sitting in a Room" also will be presented.