Megan

@coryphella got a unique experience during Tension on her visit and she lives half a country away.

I live in San Diego and I’ve done more events than most people here.

Cody, a member during Tension, got to meet Addison in the park for an event and he lives in Canada.

@mumumusings had a dead drop delivered to him in St Louis

Don’t be too quick…[Read more]

@coryphella

Classics and quick reads:

https://www.amazon.com/Owning-Your-Own-Shadow-Understanding/dp/0062507540

https://www.amazon.com/Owning-Your-Own-Shadow-Understanding/dp/B00Y34ROVW/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1490553858&sr=1-2&keywords=Johnson+Robert+A.%2C+Owning+Your+Own+Shadow%3A+Understanding+the+Dark+Side+of+the+Psyche.

@jakeo @coryphella I think you’re both getting at an interesting tension (no pun intended) in immersive theater. You have to get participants to walk some kind of line between “fortune favors the bold” and don’t be a dick (to both participants and the actors), often without actually telling the people attending where that line is. Sleep No More…[Read more]

@coryphella

yeah, I think you’re right about tension. It lived somewhere in between being on rails and free roaming. I think as an audience member, you definitely got rewarded for taking the indoctrination journey before the show. Because many of us had moments and things written specifically for us. However, I did feel like my ability to make…[Read more]

@coryphella I definitely agree with you about sleep no more. Your experience sounds exactly like mine. In fact, I was kind of guilty of this behavior myself when the show first started. Then I realized that the people acting selfishly running around all over the place trying to push themselves on actors looked silly. So I decided to hang back more…[Read more]

@coryphella Hmmm, were we? Now you’ve given me pause. Maybe I wasn’t the last show. It says in my old emails that my show was November 12, 2016, 10pm processing time. So maybe not the last show but the last night? Or the second to last night? Does that date/time sound familiar?

@coryphella

Oh friend, you are after my own heart with Artaud namedrop! I’ll definitely find a way to talk about Artaud on here one day.

Spot on with the comments re: meeting the creators halfway, that’s basically what I was getting at in my final paragraph; it feels like you’re not really giving them a chance to work their stuff.…[Read more]

Not trying to jump into a semi-argument I’m not a part of, but I think this whole discussion brings up some really interesting ideas about art and spectatorship, which is something that I think about quite a bit, and which is something that immersive theater by its very design interrogates. For whatever it’s worth, I myself don’t smoke anything…[Read more]

My additions** to the new entries:

Shadow @taysavestheday – A slob with no manners, perfect vision and a beast of a girlfriend. Cheated his way through every school he’s ever attended because he’s honestly quite dumb. Allergic to duct tape and fake blood.

Shadow @coryphella – The owner of a creepy cabin in the woods containing the corpse of the…[Read more]

@coryphella Yep. First thing.

(Hooray on LA visit!!!)

@coryphella – Y̴̢̡̧̛͕͓̭̲̼͍̩̦̟͕ͬ̒ͬ̇̿̊o̵̸̢̤͓̱̯̙͓̬͇͍̳̗̦̦͍͍̖͖͂͋̈́ͣ̃̋ͪͩ̍͌̿ͯ̓ͣ́̚͠ͅư̓͛ͮ̅ͪ͌́̂͘҉͉̻̠̖̬ ̵̶̙̝͈̹̫͍͓̜͖͙̦͚̰̱̫͖͉̃̽ͩ̒ͭk̶̢̡̡̦̹͎̰͖̳̖̰̫̞̹͎̺͓͙̮̖͓̈́̈́̎̾͒͒̇͋̕n̴̵̢ͦͮ͆̐҉̟͈̲͎̭̜̜̪̩…[Read more]

@coryphella ugh I keep nearly tagging Shadow Larry too. Begone, shadows!

@coryphella @thegilded

I totally understand being patient. My post wasn’t so much of a complaint about nothing happening to me, but a call to action for myself.

I’m new and I don’t really know anyone here, so I thought let’s try to make friends and allies with people in the same situation I’m in.

Hi @qaqaq, welcome!

It’s certainly a lot to get through, but a very worthwhile journey. Here are the links to the two best Tension resources when it comes to getting up to speed:

Official Tension Experience Timeline

This incredible, user-friendly timeline was created by @coryphella and she has already started compiling the one for Lust. This…[Read more]

@coryphella
Not that is really matters, but I had 3-4 drinks at Sleep No More.

Personally, I feel like it’s the show’s decision to make. Your recourse, as a consumer, is to decide if you can abide by their rules or not. This stuff really isn’t that hard.

@coryphella aw thank you that’s very kind of you to say. (((blush)))

@coryphella I know exactly what you mean. When I read about people going through pushing the boundaries I always wonder how. I get quiet and try to take everything in, so I rarely fight back. I’m doing more immersive theater so I’m kind of coming out of my shell about it. A very wonderful man told me though that everyone experiences things…[Read more]

@coryphella I knocked. A handler told me not to let them catch me knocking. I knocked on every other wall in that room too. and thought I’d do it everywhere else. But soon became busy with other things and forgot after the processing room.

@coryphella I had thought about it for my second time around! I wasn’t even lead into that room for my second time, completely skipped it. Ascension was my first immersive theater where we were given more freedom (I had done Delusion previously), so I had no idea what the rules were.

hahaha Yeah the Overseer does not seem like she would have…[Read more]

@coryphella I’ve always wondered that. I wish I could have found out, but the minute I got to it the handlers took me away. Seemed weird to say to them, “Yes, I am ready to continue my journey just one second though I have to go knock on this wall.” haha