fromPortland Mercury
3 days agoIn Dancing on the Sabbath, the Viewer Is the Villain
"I wonder what might have happened if we'd intervened," an audience member mused at the end of Shaking the Tree's latest production, Dancing on the Sabbath. At check-in, we'd received a note on letterhead from the Office of Royal Protection-its black logo depicting an eyeball wearing a crown-explaining we would surveil five misbehaving princesses through an invisibility cloak. As Crown-sanctioned Watchers for the night, the audience's task was to discover how the King's daughters escaped their locked chambers and to follow them wherever they went.
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