With regards to the nature of the audience interaction, I’m really excited to see what we can do there. Again, I’m hoping my “consultants” will have some ideas for me (I’m happy to get ideas from the experts), and Praxis is always interested in exploring new ways to engage with audiences before, during and after our presentations.

Happy to chat more here on the blog, or via @praxistheatre on twitter, and I’m also contactable via aislinnrose@praxistheatre.com. Feel free to send along ideas, suggestions, questions or comments.

We’re also being interviewed along with a few other Fringe shows for Electric Playground this week, so I’ll let you know when that’s going to be on. Thanks for writing!

The DnD show sounds pretty intriguing.  I’m curious to know what the topic of research is?

I find it interesting to think about the relationship between games and theatre.  On the subject of interactivity, there is much common ground between table-top games and improv.  Both require in-the-moment inputs from participants, and both work as a shared storytelling experience.

Some questions that are difficult to answer, and are perhaps the focus of your experiment:

-Can it be entertaining to watch?

-When does it stop being theatre and start being a game?

-Can your audience also be players, and if so, are they still audience members?  

-What level of interaction is just enough?

I remember reading that Penny Arcade did a live “performance” of one of their DnD sessions, and it apparently went over very well (though they could probably fill any room with interested nerds).

I’d love to know more about your process!

Thanks,

Jordan