We did not know beforehand that the play we were going to watch was an immersive (or site-specific) one. I was even surprised at the beginning to see that the audience comprised of only 15 people. But then all started making sense after a while. It would have been very difficult to move in between the locations with more than 15 people.
The play we (Jenny, Derya and I) watched was called "Holy" by a student collective "Colliding Scopes Theatre". The play was adapted from Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain. I have neither read the book nor watched the movie, so I cannot really tell how well of an adaptation it is but I really liked the play the way we saw it. It was about the weekend the lesbian couple who impulsively got married in Las Vegas, spent with one of their parents. The actors and the director were very successful in translating the homophobia and racism faced by the couple in the small town where one of them have grown up in.
The play was staged in a local church in Kingston (The St.James Anglican Church), but true to the nature of immersive theater, the scenes were not acted just in the main area of the church. We followed the actors around the building, from the kitchen to the living room, to children drawing room. We changed locations for 11 times as I counted after the show (there were in total 6 locations).
Even though it was more on the amateur side, I really liked the play. It was much more sincere and the actors were much more vulnerable as there was not the boundary between the actors and the audience imposed by the stage. I will definitely try to see a similar play in the future.
Bought the tickets on Tilt. first time using it. It was very convenient, but its surcharge was quite expensive. $0.90 for an $8 ticket.
Elvis on the stage. The first scene sets in a church in Vegas. The couple gets married.
We are at the celebration :) A good opportunity to take a picture.You don't have the chance to dance in a church every day.
They were asking us (the audience) to prepare the room for the gathering. There were real cookies and blackberries on the table that we all ate. The blackbarries were delicious.
We were sitting in the play as well. See Derya on the right sitting on one of the couches. Jenny and I were also sitting on the two couches opposite to the actors.
I was standing leaning against the refrigerator. I dropped one of the magnets on the refrigerator. Quite funny that we were interacting with the props (actually it was a real refrigerator!).




















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