Discussion about Immersive Theatre with Pittsburgh's Bricolage—Dramatists Guild—Mon, Nov 25 2013
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2017-06-21

The Dramatists Guild of America presents a livestreaming discussion about Immersive Theatre with Pittsburgh's Bricolage Production Company on the global, commons based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday, November 25 at 3 p.m. PST / 5 p.m. CST / 6 p.m. EST / 23:00 GMT.

The recent wave of immersive theatre (including Punchdrunk's Sleep No More and Bricolage's STRATA, featured on the cover of August’s American Theatre Magazine and also in The Dramatist Jan/Feb 2013 Technology issue) challenges how we define playwriting and theatrical experience. This exciting discussion explores the role of the writer in the creation of immersive and site-specific theatre, in particular, the immersive urban adventure STRATA (Pittsburgh).


In the summer of 2012, the citizens of Pittsburgh were introduced to STRATA, a daring experiment in immersive theatre, a co-production between Bricolage Theatre and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Ticket-holders were given a secret location in the downtown area at which they would be greeted at a set date and time, by their “refitnessing counselor.” Billed as “Pittsburgh’s First Refitnessing Center” STRATA was the brainchild of a team of writers, directors, actors and designers, among them, playwright Gab Cody and director Sam Turich, who will join Roland Tec for a discussion of this groundbreaking piece of theatre. - See more at: http://howlround.com/live-on-howlround-tv-discussion-about-immersive-theater-with-pittsburghs-bricolage#sthash.Cpru8WkU.dpuf

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