Join us for a special Scratch Night at Fringe!

Collaborating with Obvious Agency for: Let’s Play x Scratch Night, May 12 at 7PM

Let’s Play x Scratch Night showcases works-in-progress that focus on highlighting interactive works! In these performances, the audience plays a critical role that may evolve into co-creation of these works by contribution and observation. While some interactive performances might involve pre-scripted elements, others might be entirely improvised or might involve new rules or systems for audiences to learn!

You’re in for an exciting treat and opportunity! Discover and deepen connections amongst artists and audience members. See experimental works at various stages of development – from the first spark of something new to an excerpt of a finished piece. Stay for a drink, chat with artists and audiences about what you saw, and provide vital feedback that will help with the development of the work. Get ready and grab your seat for Let’s Play x Scratch Night!

Scratch nights are PWYC ticketing starting from $0. All ticketing proceeds generated will be split amongst the participating artists!

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First Date with Lobster – Connor Hogan

In First Date with Lobster, a new small-scale interactive piece from Connor Hogan, a single audience member goes on a first date with a human sized lobster. Meanwhile, a small audience of five watches as human and lobster navigate their differences. Can the jitters of new romance show us how to protect each other in a world in crisis?

Funeral Parlor for a Species – Yannick Trapman-O’Brien

According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, only about 800 extinctions have been officially documented in the past 400 years—but thanks to next-day delivery, we’ll be getting those numbers up soon. Yes, the end is nigh for all sorts of miraculous creatures you’ve never seen without British narration. It’s long past time to ask; what makes a good death? How might we design “end-of-species” care? What will we choose to save?

Labyrinth Of The Other (LOTO) – Severin Blake

Labyrinth Of The Other (LOTO) is an immersive interdisciplinary performance installation that upends the myth of the minotaur and travels through a labyrinth of lived diasporic experience on a journey of Black Queer Switch Witch Remembering. LOTO asks who we are beneath the mask of the monster? What does the word monster mean? LOTO is a ritual container for transformation, a call to go beyond the threshold of erasure, to rest, to learn and remember.

A Developmental Excerpt of “Model Minorities” – Lex Thammavong & Satchel Williams

“Model Minorities” is an interactive play/performance art piece (in early development) by Lex Thammavong in collaboration with Satchel Williams. Lex and Satchel play runway models cast in a surreal fashion show where they are tasked to perform as ‘perfect, idealized minorities’. The work aims to satirize the ‘model minority’ myth and respectability politics. For Scratch Night, they’ll be sharing an excerpt and leading a playtest to experiment with the audience’s potential role in the piece.

TRUST_ALL – Wherehouse

TRUST_ALL requires one audience member to be on stage, blindfolded. Their goal is to play an augmented reality game on a phone that is given to them, with the phone’s screen live projected onto the wall behind the player for the audience to see. The player must listen to the audience as they attempt to guide the player through an augmented reality maze. Just when the player starts to get the hang of things, they realize that there is a giant wall of death slowly closing in on the maze, forcing them to quickly listen to the audience in order to find their way out.

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Be sure to catch upcoming Scratch Night performances – June 09