‘One of the things we ruled out from the very beginning, was anyone from the NHS going on strike.’
Co-creator of the play, Crisis what Crisis’, @owenkingston discusses the parallels between winter 2022 and the winter of discontent in the 1970s.
🎭 Join Parabolic Theatre’s Owen Kingston at New Game Plus for a talk on real-time narrative!
Learn how audience-driven storytelling shapes shows like Crisis? What Crisis? and what games can learn from immersive theatre.
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Come and find us at MCM Comicon this weekend - stand N654. We’ll be running participation games on our touring setup - reserve a spot for yourself or your team here: ticketsource.co.uk/bridge-co…
The sets are absolutely huge (this is just the bridge of one of the two mission ships) and full of lovely details, the backstory is great, the missions really well designed, and the actors fantastic. It’s not a cheap night out but brilliant if you’re at all in to that.
ALT The bridge of a spaceship with captain’s chair in the middle, helm, main screen, and three officer stations on either side. There’s half a dozen people in blue jumpsuits at the various stations and there is a lot of bluish lighting.
We enjoyed the last time we pretended to fly a spaceship so much we went back to @bridge_command and had even more fun. This time we knew what we were doing and there were more things we were supposed to blast away and we rose to the occasion.
ALT Me in a space navy jumpsuit looking intently at a console display with sliders.
Spent 7 hours living out my space navy/starship captain dreams last night at @bridge_command with a load of @ThePPSC lovelies... Space Pirates were dispatched with extreme prejudice, Treaties were signed & sabatours foiled!! Such a fab time Thanks all!! Thoroughly recommend!!
Reintroducing National Service is yet another aspect of our show ‘Crisis? What Crisis?’ that we thought was a bit silly, but the current government have actually run with.
It seems that the PM has discovered Karen Blackstock’s ‘Blue Sky Thinking’ folder. It’ll be ‘Bring Back Hanging’ next. If you know, you know. #crisiswhatcrisis
Went to the opening night of @bridge_command by @_Parabolic_
5 year old me would be very happy that one day I finally made it onto a bridge of a starship.
Awe-inspiring! I had to take a moment to live through the sheer joy of welling up and saluting that young lad I used to be.
.@_Parabolic_ open the no-doubt-incredible Bridge Command tonight, a sequel to a show I loved back just pre-pandemic. They're the masters of technically profound, player reactive game-theatre. Really, there's no-one better! Go!
Bridge Command opens today, on #WorldTheatreDay, four years almost to the day after it closed in its previous venue due to COVID. There is a lot wrong with the world at the moment, and theatre in the uk has many problems, but today I am going to let myself be grateful.