Audience Participation Dinner Theatre
Escape into another Time and Place:
into a Fantasy World of Adventure,
Mystery, and Intrigue ...
PALLADIAN Interactive Theatre extends the traditional dinner theatre concept to include not only the dinner and the theatre, but also an opportunity for the audience to participate as performers.
It's more like stepping through a time machine than attending a conventional theatre.
There are no lines to memorize, and each drama never ends the same twice - because participants improvise their lines while attempting to achieve the goals outlined in their role packets.
Playwright Robert Cook sums it up. "We've gotten to know the characters so well, and yet they always surprise us. Every group of guests plays it completely different."
The dramas are based on the assumption that there is a little actor in everyone, and we have been proved right time-after-time! Our audience/actor participants have included ordinary people, mayors, top corporate executives, U.S. Senators, Congressmen, and a Governor or two, which goes to show that anyone can be an actor.
"In traditional theater, the audience assumes a reactive role, responding to the performance in a passive fashion," said Jeff Wirth, author of Interactive Acting: Acting, Improvisation, and Interacting for Audience Participatory Theatre. "Interactive Theatre expands the experience of the audience by offering them a proactive role, in which they are invited to join as a collaborator in the creation of the performance.
"Interactive Theatre combines the richness of rehearsed material, the spontaneity of improvisation, and the empowerment of participation," said Wirth. "It draws on acting and improvisation techniques, as well as techniques unique to the interactive form."
Keywords: Murder Mystery, Santa, Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Storytelling
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