Endure: A Run Woman Show is an immersive, outdoor athletic theatre experience that performs in Brooklyn, New York in September and October of 2011. Melanie Jones is the creator/performer of the show. The original soundtrack for the show was created by Christine Owman. Endure was directed by Michael Buffer and produced by Collision Productions, with support from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Preparation and beginning In my experience, when one is deeply passionate about a discipline, that discipline can become a metaphor life. Endure is an experience that illuminates that idea through the world of a marathon...
Sleep No More
posted by Jeff Wirth
Sleep No More is a Punchdrunk production presented by Emursive. It performs in New York City. When people learned that I would be blogging about interactive experiences in New York City, the most common question was, “Have you seen Sleep No More?” I hadn’t. On...
Matt Holmes
posted by Jeff Wirth
Matt Holmes is an improviser who lives in Philadelphia, and performs all across the country. On August 13, 2011, Matt performed his show entitled “Matt &” at the 13th annual Del Close Marathon in New York City. The show consists of Matt creating a long form improvisation...
Eddie Kim
posted by Jeff Wirth
After seeing Romeoo and Julietet at the Brick’s Game Play Festival, I sat down to talk with Eddie Kim, the creator and director of the show, to learn more about him, his creative process and his future goals. Tell me about your background. I went to Amherst College where I was a...
Romeoo and Julietet
posted by Jeff Wirth
Romeoo and Julietet was performed as a part of the Brick Theater’s Game Play festival in July of 2011. It is a retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, played in a World of Warcraft environment. The show was written and directed by Eddie Kim and performed by his students from Pierrepont School in Westport, Connecticut. The premise Setting Romeo and Juliet in the online World of Warcraft (WoW) makes sense. The world is populated by two factions that have been at odds for generations, theAllianceand the Horde. It is an environment in which the feuding houses of Capulet and Montague would feel right at home....
A new way to slice t...
posted by Jeff Wirth
New York may seem to be a city of strangers from time to time, but the city keeps everyone pushed up so close together that you can barely step out on the street without having an interaction. As it is in life, so it also is in the arts, medicine, business, gaming, education, dining and...