We are very pleased to bring Presence, Risk, Acceptance, Whirligig’s collaboration with playwright Kirk Lynn, to an exclusive leadership retreat this week. This is a boutique leadership gathering designed to spark peer conversation and connection around community building for brands. To meet the need, we are applying revisions to our question and game-mechanic driven text, and of course, we are hand-building another set of...
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Audience members have asked when do actors find out what scene they’ll be doing next. This is when we find out, sometimes a few seconds earlier if it’s a landslide. The one below was a squeaker. It’s these few seconds in which the rest of the evening for almost everybody in the show is decided. Monologues drop onto the table, whole characters are shrugged off for the night, blood rigging is moved to another...
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Join us for the complete series of The Drunk Oresteia, directed by Lowell Bartholomee and created by Whirligig Productions to supplement Deus Ex Machina.
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For today’s performance, we implemented a change in text message behavior. Previously we were pushing via text message the voting options to each phone, reinforcing the options made available on the screens in the performance (and for some of the votes via spoken lines). We found that for last night’s full-to-bursting audience, that: the information appeared redundant owing to the other methods we present the options the...
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Deus Ex Machina began with a conversation about yielding to an audience agency over a play’s narrative trajectory while preserving the structure and prepare-ability of a traditional play. We settled quickly on diverging, scripted timelines, a multiverse of narrative lines that split at multiple inflection points responding to audience voting. How to do this gracefully? How to submerge the mechanics of voting into the world of...
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Announcement: Support From The Creative Fund We are proud to announce that The Creative Fund has chosen to underwrite the venue expenses for Deus Ex Machina as part of their Q Rental Subsidy Grant. We are proud to be a sponsored project of the Creative Fund, whose worthy work is a crucial piece of helping Austin’s performing art community present to audiences. From the Creative Fund: This production has been generously funded by...
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