Culture Watch: Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
A live interactive online LGBTQ+ sci-fi experience from Zoyander Street.
Taking place on Thursday, 17 April, Softly as in a Morning Sunrise is a live interactive online LGBTQ+ sci-fi experience created by Zoyander Street.
“This is like a narrative-driven indie videogame, but it’s performed live by real actors...” explains Zoyander Street. “As a chronically-ill queer person living in Rotherham in the 2020s, it can sometimes feel like the rest of the world has vanished. I rely on online events and communities to feel alive and connected to others.”
This work is the third instalment of the Intrapology series that Zoyander Street as developed with D. Squinkifer.
Intrapology is all about how people make worlds together, and the cataclysmic social fragmentation that threatens to unmake them. It focuses on the perspectives of neurodivergent queer folk, as alien anthropologists doing fieldwork on earth. They interact via video call with their supervisors at the fictional Transdimensional Research Institute, an alien university that has been decimated by cuts to the fabric of reality. Together they expose the comedy and terror of living in a world that was not built with people like you in mind.
The audience collectively shapes the story, experiencing the show on a web page that looks like the protagonist’s computer desktop. Through this online format, Intrapology aims to reach disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent audiences that have been left behind by the return to in-person events. It aims to move beyond the limitations of online theatre as we know it, with an approach to design that draws on alternative indie games culture.
The actors featured in this instalment are Xander Graves, Fadumo Hassan, Caitlin Magnall-Kearns, and D. Squinkifer.
Tickets available at http://intrapology.com/tickets
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