Fancy a change? Then this Thursday 21st November, join the latest installment of Intrapology, the live interactive online queer sci-fi series.
Developed by Zoyander Street and Dietrich Squinkifer, and starring Xander Graves, Fadumo Hassan, and Caitlin Magnall-Kearns, Intrapology is all about how people make worlds together, and the cataclysmic social fragmentation that threatens to unmake them.
Hedi (Fadumo Hassan) is a rising star of the tech world, and nobody knows they are secretly an alien anthropologist. Hedi is optimistic about the future – we’re going to solve all our problems with increasingly powerful technology, just like Star Trek. But when the tech world lets them down, it’s up to the audience to decide how they will respond.
Intrapology focuses on the perspectives of neurodivergent queer folk, as alien anthropologists doing fieldwork on earth. They interact via video call with their supervisors at the fictional Transdimensional Research Institute, an alien university that has been decimated by cuts to the fabric of reality. Together they expose the comedy and terror of living in a world that was not built with people like them in mind.
The audience collectively shapes the story, experiencing the show on a web page that looks like the protagonist’s computer desktop. Through this online format, amongst others, Intrapology aims to reach disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent audiences that don’t feel comfortable with in-person events. It aims to move beyond the limitations of online theatre as we know it, with an approach to design that draws on alternative indie games culture.
“This is like a narrative-driven indie videogame, but it’s performed live by real actors”, says creator Zoyander Street, who has been working at the fringes of weird games since the early 2010s. This project began life as a 2021 collaboration between Zoyander and Canadian queer games artist Dietrich “Squinky” Squinkifer. “As a chronically-ill queer person living in Rotherham in the 2020s, it can sometimes feel like the rest of the world has vanished. I rely on online events and communities to feel alive and connected to others.”
Sounds very interesting!
Thursday 21st November, 7pm UK time Tickets available at http://intrapology.com/tickets IG/TikTok @intrapology Presented in partnership with Queerness and Games Conference
This is the second episode of Intrapology, but audiences do not need to have seen the first episode to follow the story.
Queerguru’s Contributing Editor Ris Fatah is a successful fashion/luxury business consultant (when he can be bothered) who divides and wastes his time between London and Ibiza. He is a lover of all things queer, feminist, and human rights in general. @ris.fatah
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