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Softly as in a Morning Sunrise (Intrapology S01E03)
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
Live interactive online queer sci-fi
Developed by Zoyander Street and D. Squinkifer
Written by Zoyander Street and Sarah Davis Reynolds
Starring Xander Graves, Fadumo Hassan,
Caitlin Magnall-Kearns, and D. Squinkifer
Photo by Holly Revell
Tickets are now available for the third instalment of live, interactive online queer sci-fi series Intrapology
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 protagonists 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 its performed live by real actors, says creator Zoyander Street, who has been working at the weird f ringes of games since the early 2010s. This project began life as a 2021 collaboration between Zoyander 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.
Sunday 15th June, 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 June 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.
About the artists
Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise is co-written by Sarah Davis Reynolds and Zoyander Street. Sarah Davis Reynolds is the co-creator and game designer of Dungeons & Dragons The Twenty-Sided Tavern, the officially-licensed D&D interactive stage show, currently running off-Broadway in NYC. D&DTST and Sarahs work on it have been featured in publications including TIME magazine, The New York Times, Variety, and Rolling Stone, and at numerous conventions including San Diego and New York Comic Cons.
Intrapology is created by Dr Zoyander Street (they/them). Zoyander is a neuroqueer and disabled writer, researcher, and digital artist, creating interactive media based on social and historical research. Their work has been shown around the world, including Tokyo, Berlin, Chicago, Vancouver, and London. They are a supported artist at Sheffield Theatres, and a fellow of the Imaginary College at Arizona State Universitys Center for Science and the Imagination.
Intrapologys queer sci-fi storyworld is inspired by the lived experience of queer disabled people, as well as research in feminist technoscience studies. It developed out of a collaboration with D. Squinkifer, and its format is based on their MFA project Coffee: A Misunderstanding, which was a finalist at renowned indie games festival IndieCade 2014 and toured internationally.
D. Squinkifer (they/he) creates games and playable experiences about gender identity, social awkwardness, and miscellaneous silliness. They are responsible for such critically acclaimed works as Dominique Pamplemousse in Its All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings! and Coffee: A Misunderstanding. In 2015, they were recognized as part of Forbess 30 under 30 in Games.
Caitlin Magnall-Kearns (she/they) plays the role of Iris. They are a writer from East Belfast, and currently part of the BBC Comedy Collective 2024. Their full-length play Trifled recently debuted at the New Theatre in Dublin.
Fadumo Hassan (she/her) began her career as a screen actor, and later transitioned to theatre with the support of the Sheffield Theatres Young Company and New Dramaturgs Group 2023. In 2023 she performed on the Crucible stage as part of Utopia Theatres All Our Goals. This year she was part of the R&D for Stand and Be Counted Theatre, a theatre of sanctuary for refugees and asylum seekers.
Xander Graves (they/he) is a non-binary actor based in Sheffield. Their recent roles include the short film Heirloom, Sheffield Theatres productions of Something Old, Something New and Midsummer Nights Dream, and a scratch night performance of new work Cupid Play. Xander has been a passionate member of Intrapology from the early days of the project and resonated deeply with the character of Tea, as someone who is also non-binary, neurodiverse, and pissed off at the state of the world.
In addition to a handful of supporters on Patreon, Intrapology has been made possible by a Project Grant from Arts Council England, and its software is developed with the support of Innovate UK and Creative UK. Early development was supported by the Sheffield Theatres Bank Cohort, Barrel Organ Theatres Barnsley LIVE, and the New Conversations Canada-UK Exchange (British Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Farnham Maltings, High Commission of Canada in the UK).
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Accessibility
Access features:
- BSL interpretation
- Integrated captions
- Keyboard compatible interaction
- Some integrated audio description
Access limitations:
- Audio description might not cover everything we'd like it to - we're working on this with access dramaturgs Quiplash.
- Potential photosensitivity risk in some of our prerecorded videos
- Screen reader compatibility has not been fully tested, and may clash with audio from the performance
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