Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
Written by Zoyander Street and Sarah Davis Reynolds. Starring Xander Graves, Fadumo Hassan, Caitlin Magnall-Kearns, and D. Squinkifer
Can you be friends with your ex, even if you now live in different worlds? After spending years alone in their own pocket universe, Iris receives an unexpected message from their ex, Paris. Iris and Paris reflect on what happened between them: could their relationship have ever survived the cataclysmic breakdown in shared reality? Audiences will be invited to consider how to forgive the truest betrayal of all - the failure to build a world together.
‘Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise’ is a live-digital hybrid, interactive sci-fi comedy about denialism and idealism, neurodiversity and neuroqueerness, and the pain of living in a world that works against your survival. It is the third story for Intrapology, a series of interactive performances that will explore how people make worlds together, through the allegory of the Transdimensional Research Institute. You do not need to have seen episodes 1 and 2 to follow the story.
Intrapology should appeal to people who listen to Welcome to Night Vale, watch The Good Place, or play Disco Elysium. By taking actions such as voting on dialogue options, the audience guides what the protagonist says, does, and thinks. This will be a mostly unrehearsed live reading, with two actors performing a script that is shaped by messages and votes from the audience via web app.
