Softly as in a Morning Sunrise Immersive Event

Softly as in a Morning Sunrise

Can you be friends with your ex, even if you now live in different worlds?

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Experience hosted by Intrapology Ltd.

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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. “This is like a narrative-driven indie videogame, but it’s performed live by real actors”, says creator Zoyander Street, who has been working at the weird fringes of games since the early 2010s. This project began life as a 2021 collaboration between Zoyander and Canadian queer games artist Dietrich “Squinky” Squinkifer. “As a chronically-ill queer person living in Rotherham in the 2020s, it can sometimes feel like the rest of the world has vanished. I rely on online events and communities to feel alive and connected to others.” Thursday 17th April, 7pm UK time Tickets available at http://intrapology.com/tickets Suggested contribution £10 GBP (approx. $14 USD) For press and media enquiries, please contact contact@intrapology.com 020 3287 9692 Instagram and Tiktok: @intrapology Press kit: https://intrapology.notion.site/ Synopsis Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise, 17th April 7pm UK time 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. In this live interactive online story, 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.... Show More

Audience Role

The audience influences what the main character says and does by voting on dialogue options, and by entering content for an improvised stream-of-consciousness rant. The audience influences what the main character says and does by voting on dialogue options, and by entering content for an improvised stream-of-consciousness rant.

Content Advisories

  • Flashing lights

  • Strong language

  • Themes around mental health

  • 16 +

Interaction Advisories

  • No physical contact with performers

Mobility Advisories

  • No mobility advisories

  • Event is wheelchair accessible.

PWYC

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What you will need

Web site

Delivery of the experience via a custom built web site or series of web sites.

Additional Instructions

Best experienced on a laptop or desktop computer, but smartphone and smart TV are also possible. British Sign Language interpretation and integrated captions will be provided. For more details, see: https://intrapology.com/access

Intrapology Ltd.

Hosting immersive events on EI since March, 2025

Being neurodivergent can feel like being an alien, studying human society. Temple Grandin referred to this as being an “Anthropologist on Mars”. Extending this metaphor into a narrative storyworld, Intrapology is a neuroqueering sci-fi multiverse focused on video calls between alien anthropologists and their supervisors at the Transdimensional Research Institute. Intrapology is set in a multiverse that takes social constructivism literally - each world is literally enacted by the society that inhabits it. The question is, why are we earthbound beings socially constructing such a shithole? Interacting with live actors using a web app, the audience shapes the protag’s narrative about society, reflecting how the anthropologist has been shaped by their host society, and giving the audience an opportunity to vent their feelings about our fucked-up world.... Show More