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Intrapology: Episode One: Assigned Earth at Birth
a live, interactive online queer sci-fi series
Intrapology is all about how people make worlds together, and the cataclysmic social fragmentation that threatens to unmake them. It focuses on the perspectives of neurodivergent queer folk, as alien anthropologists doing fieldwork on earth. They interact via video call with their supervisors at the fictional Transdimensional Research Institute, an alien university that has been decimated by cuts to the fabric of reality. Together they expose the comedy and terror of living in a world that was not built with people like you in mind. The audience collectively shapes the story, experiencing the show on a web page that looks like the protagonist’s computer desktop. Through this online format, Intrapology aims to reach disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent audiences that have been left behind by the return to in-person events. It aims to move beyond the limitations of online theatre as we know it, with an approach to design that draws on alternative indie games culture. Episode one: Assigned Earth at Birth – Thursday 26th September 7pm UK time Tea (Xander Graves) has discovered that they are not an ordinary human – they are a transdimensional being, assigned to earth to carry out anthropological fieldwork. We influence their behaviour in their first meetings via video call with their otherworldly drag king supervisor, Iris (Caitlin Magnall-Kearns). Understandably, Tea is furious about being assigned to such a horrible project, and demands to be reassigned; but relocation has unanticipated consequences for both characters. In partnership with Now Play This
Audience Role
You will be invited to shape the behavior and views of the main character, through interactions such as voting on dialogue options, or writing in short messages to be read aloud by the actor.
Ages: All ages
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About Intrapology
Stories from the Transdimensional Research Institute Does it feel like being a person in this world doesn't quite come naturally to you? Do things like gender and money feel like alien concepts, that you just have to go along with in order to get by? If so, you're not the only one! The Transdimensional Research Institute assigns sentient beings to target worlds, as part of its ambitious programme of anthropological research. The world you are assigned shapes you, so by understanding yourself you can better understand the world. The more worlds we study together, the better we can understand the social and cultural forces that create them.