The No Proscenium Podcast

This week we talk with Owen Kingston and Chris Styles of Parabolic Theatre in London about their current season of immersive works and the company's new home the CRYPT in the East End, which they've shared with a few productions rehomed from the canceled Vault festival.

Show Notes

• Parabolic Theatre
• The Los Angeles Immersive Invitational
• Review Crew on Big Beautiful BRANDS: Doctor Who, Bridgerton & More

Associate Producer: Parker Sela

Music: Chris Porter 

Producer and Host: Noah Nelson  

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This week Kevin Gossett hosts a conversation all about the kinds of big branded experiences that are many people’s first foray into immersive.

Shelley Snyder joins from London to talk Doctor Who: Time Fracture [spoiler warning at 12:00] while LA correspondent Briana Roecks and Arts Editor Laura Hess detail their time at Netflix’s Bridgerton ball in LA (which has popped up in Chicago and D.C., but is different from the Secret Cinema one in London. Got it?) [13:45]

Plus there’s talk about I Know What You Did Last Summer, which JFI put together for Amazon. [37:40] Plus you know we had to mention Arcane. (Another Netflix show. Huh, maybe they should do more of these. Ted. Call me. I have the solution to your stock problems.) 

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It's a mega-episode this week starting with a panel of rebels & rogues who offer their travel tips for journeys on Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. Journalists Brooke McDonald & Todd Martens and experience designer Nick Tierce, all of whom were amongst the first travelers on board the Halcyon, join us for a spoiler-free discussion that aims to help those who are traveling on board the ship make the most of their experience… with just a little dash of design theory sprinkled in for good measure. [7:50]

Plus we talk with performer/creator Stepy Kamei about her currently running one-on-one phone experience 'We Should Meet In Air', which brings audience members into contact with Sylvia Plath in the last year of her life. (CW: mention of suicide, discussion of mental health). [51:00]

All that and we announce the return of the Los Angeles Immersive Invitational and how YOU can be art of it [open segment], plus the Pick of the Week [47:00], and Headlines [5:40]!

Show Notes

• Brooke's Review of Starcruiser (Simplemost)
• Todd's Review of Starcruiser (LA Times)
• NoPro Review Rundown (f. 'We Should Meet In Air')
• Los Angeles Immersive Invitational
• Review Crew: Pick Up The Phone, Willya?

Associate Producer: Parker Sela

Music: Chris Porter 

Headlines: Kathryn Yu, Executive Editor of No Proscenium

Producer and Host: Noah Nelson  

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This week Patrick McLean takes on the host duties and chats with Leah Davis and Laura Hess about the often overlooked genre of telephone-based immersive shows.

The Crew dives into what makes the format tick, starting with a discussion of Leah's time with Sylvia Plath (in a sense) as part of 'We Should Meet In Air,' and carrying on with talk of Capital W's 'A Call From The Resistance,' the work of Candle House Collective, and the multiple manifestations of 'The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries.'

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Leanne Pedante (Head of Fitness) & Jonny Ahdout (Head of Product Marketing & Community) for the VR fitness app Supernatural join host Noah Nelson again on this the second anniversary of the launch of the best fitness app in VR and then some. Only this time we're in person and it's a blast. [8:25]

From NYC: correspondent Allie Marotta interviews Kendra Slack and Jordan Chlapecka of Linked Dance Theatre about the currently running The Incomplete Collection. [32:40]

Plus the Pick of the Week [28:12] and Headlines.

Show Notes

Lustration Q&A

NoPro Book Club: Planning Your Escape

Review Rundown for 4.5.22

Review Crew Book Club Special: Snow Crash

Guest Review: The Creator

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This time out Blake Weil, Patrick McLean, and Kevin Gossett report back from the NoPro Book Club and dive into Neal Stephenson's seminal Snow Crash, the 1992 book that brought us the term "metaverse" laid the groundwork for countless imitators and an industry.

Coming up next from the NoPro Book Club: Laura Hall's Planning Your Escape. The club meets for its discussion group next Tuesday, April 12th at 8pm EDT/5pm PDT.

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This week we talk with Amy Ashton, producer of La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls Festival which runs April 21st - 24th at San Diego’s Liberty Station — it’s the longest-running theatre festival of its kind here in the United States and this marks the beginning of an annual cycle for the festival. [4:36]

Then solo performer Siobhan O’ Loughlin will be here to chat about the upcoming remount of her piece Every Day I’ll Hope, which returns to LA this month. [37:00]

Plus Kathryn Yu has this week's immersive headlines and the Pick of the Week [32:49].

Associate Producer: Parker Sela

Music: Chris Porter 

Headlines: Kathryn Yu, Executive Editor of No Proscenium

Producer and Host: Noah Nelson  

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The Review Crew goes on another deep dive, single-topic discussion this week about Cadences: The Story of a Distance of its Pair. Leah Davis and Blake Weil recount in detail their experience play-at-home LARP from Soft Chaos. The conversation also goes into their LARPing experience and thoughts on storytelling, as Patrick McLean peppers the pair with questions. Note: while there are “spoilers” about gameplay functionality and the story Leah and Blake created, anyone else’s playthrough of Cadences would definitely be completely different. 

A limited number of physical copies of Cadences are still available to order on Indiegogo along with a digital download available on itch.io.

Upcoming NoPro Events

March 31 @ 6pm PDT/9pm EDT - Community Forum: Expectations & Advisories

April 12th @ 5pm PDT/8pm EDT - Book Club: Planning Your Escape

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Some know Josh Randall as the co-creator of the seminal immersive horror production BLACKOUT, others as the director of large-scale promotional activations at Comic-Con and in Hollywood, and yet others as part of the team at Two Bit Circus in LA — some of us even know him as all three. This week he's here to talk about something radically different: his performance in a site-responsive production of Will Eno’s Thom Pain (based on nothing) that he’s staging in his own garage in Los Angeles.

Settle in for an incredibly personal interview with one of the most provocative minds I know.

Plus: Kathryn Yu is here with this week's headlines.

SHOW NOTES

Peabody Award Legacy Winners

PGA Innovation Award Winner

Review Rundown

Community Forum: Expectations & Advisories (Discord; March 31)

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