Paris lives in a utopian polyamorous community on an alien world - but something, someone, somewhere else is pulling them away, revealing how fragile their existence really is. Meanwhile, their estranged ex Iris is literally falling apart. Both may have something to learn from our own world, which somehow keeps on going despite all of its catastrophic contradictions. What does it take to maintain stability in the chaos? Is it always worth the cost? Audiences will be invited to decide who has the power to hold a world together. --- Intrapology is designed to connect with audiences who face access issues. It is performed online by disabled and neurodivergent actors who join remotely from all over the world. “This is like a narrative-driven indie videogame, but it’s performed live by real actors” says creator Zoyander Street, a trans person with MS who has been working at the fringes of games since the early 2010s. “This project began life as a 2021 collaboration between myself and Canadian queer games artist D. 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.” Intrapology portrays the experiences 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 itself). Together, they expose the comedy and terror of living in a world that works against your survival. 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 move beyond the limitations of online theatre as we know it, with an approach to design that draws on alternative indie games culture.
Audience Role
Vote on dialogue options, enter free response text for improvised rants to be performed by the actors
Ages: 13 +
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About Intrapology Ltd.
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.