Interactive Storytelling: Video Games and Theatre

You’re invited to join Playwrights Theatre Centre from Vancouver, Canada for a conversation about Interactive Storytelling: Video Games and Theatre which is livestreaming for the global, commons-based peer produced HowRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 20 May at 5 p.m. PDT (Vancouver) / 7 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 8 p.m. EDT (Toronto) / Wednesday, May 21 at 00:00 GMT / 10 a.m. AEST (Sydney).

To participate on Twitter, direct your questions to @PTC_Playwrights or use #ptcplays. You can also use the hashtag #howlround to follow the conversation.

PTC’s Interactive Storytelling: Video Games and Theatre is an extension of the conversations that have been taking place in our theatre communities around interactivity and what it means for aesthetics, our stories, and the audience. To us, it seemed that this conversation was also taking place in the game design community and we wanted to sit down with game creators to discuss the issue.

In the process, we discovered that game and theatre creators share many commonalities. In the words of one speaker Amanda Doiron, “We aim to build experiences—not just a story.” Playwrights Theatre Centre's Dramaturg Kathleen Flaherty will by joined by game industry experts Athomas Goldberg (EA, Microsoft), Amanda Doiron (Microsoft’s Black Tusk Studios, Radical), and Alexandre Mandryka (Ubisoft, Relic Entertainment) for a discussion on the limits and the limitless possibilities of interactive storytelling.

This event will involve presentation, case studies, and open discussion which invites audience members to share experience and thoughts from their own work.

About HowlRound TV

HowlRound TV is a global, commons-based peer produced, open access livestreaming and video archive project stewarded by the nonprofit HowlRound. HowlRound TV is a free and shared resource for live conversations and performances relevant to the world's performing arts and cultural fields. Its mission is to break geographic isolation, promote resource sharing, and to develop our knowledge commons collectively. Participate in a community of peer organizations revolutionizing the flow of information, knowledge, and access in our field by becoming a producer and co-producing with us. Learn more by going to our participate page. For any other queries, email [email protected], or call Vijay Mathew at +1 917.686.3185 Signal/WhatsApp. View the video archive of past events.