Venue: Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) Dates: 2 – 25 Aug 2013 (not 5, 12, 19) Time: 11.00, 14.00, 17.00 (60 mins) (no 17.00 show 2 Aug) Tickets: £12 adult/£9 children, Family £40 (2 adults & 2 children) (previews 2 Aug £6)
Bad Physics/Mercury Theatre Colchester/Richard Jordan Productions/Escalator East to Edinburgh present: The Adventure, and Interactive site specific mystery for children
When a famous scientist is abducted, it takes his two children, their best friend, an incompetent storyteller, and the audience to rescue him. In a dark and exciting disused building you must work together to discover clues, solve puzzles, face your worst fears and find your deepest courage.
Join an intrepid gang of young detectives in a secret location on a journey through an explorable building and help them to solve a fiendishly puzzling mystery. Decipher interactive puzzles, offer suggestions, and help decide how the story unfolds. The Famous Five meets Scooby Doo meets The Crystal Maze in a unique hour of funny and inventive interactive theatre. You won’t be sat in the dark watching a play…you’ll be at the heart of THE ADVENTURE!
Written by Fringe First winner Oliver Birch and created by award-winning interactive theatre specialists Bad Physics and directed by Artistic Director Dan Bird, THE ADVENTURE is a unique experience for 7-13 year olds and their families. Presented in a mystery location (meet at Pleasance Courtyard) groups of only 35 audience members will find themselves at the very heart of a thrilling interactive mystery. Will our gang of detectives prevail and save their Dad? Only with YOUR help!
Bad Physics make theatre that put the audience at the heart of the story. Developing a style that is playful and knowing, and that includes the audience rather than shutting them out, they create interactive stories driven by a strong narrative. They produced SUNDAY MORNING AT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD and TOAD for Southwark Playhouse and have created immersive and interactive commissions for Latitude Festival, Old Vic Tunnels, BAC, the Royal Horticultural Society, Clerkenwell Design Week and London Fields Lido.
The Adventure has been selected for Escalator East To Edinburgh. Each year Escalator, East to Edinburgh helps artists and arts organisations to raise their profile and perform to new audiences as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
