“Is art playable? Are video games cinematic? Are smartphones a stage? Is there an architecture that connects these diverse media forms? With the increasing maturity of the modern video game, the possibilities for multi-media cross-over artworks cry out to be explored”. This is all Game Play.
What if the characters and stories of classic video games were reimagined and reinterpreted as live theater in front of you? Theater of the Arcade (five classic video games scenes adapted for the stage) is the most provocative and intriguing of four different shows mixing genres and styles that turned into an amusing and intelligent two-hour evening of short plays. It is tragic and comic staring Pac-Man and Mario Bros. Got it?
It happened during the Game Play festival – a celebration of video game performance art – at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, created to fuse the techniques and live presentation of theater with the themes, structures and technology of interactive electronic entertainment.
“It might be theater’s future”—United Airlines Hemispheres Inflight Magazine
“This is my new favorite theater on earth. If I lived within 500 miles of this place, I’d be there for every show.”
—G4TV’s The Feed
