Roundabout
By Sean Stewart
NIDA Digital Theatre Festival
6 characters. 3 bodies. 1 meddlesome audience. So many things could go wrong.
An interactive farce for the digital age.
Science fiction meets comedy as three young school leavers in an awkward love triangle meet on the video platform Twitch. In the chat channel are three skylarking digital humans who yearn to be made flesh for the first time in 13,000 years. With the help of the audience they possess the actors.
Each Roundabout performance was unique, with a different outcome. The live audience were active co-creators on the Twitch channel, determining the course of action. Even over six performances, not all possibilities were exhausted.
