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Tape Escape


Escape room meets immersive performance set in a 90s video store with three separate game-plays. The three “In-Store Rentals” are Love Without Late Fees, A Grown-Up’s Guide to Flying, and Yesterday’s Heroes. 
Production Credits

Co-created by
: Vanessa Smythe, Mitchell Cushman and Nick Bottomley 
Production Design by: Anahita Dehbonehie and Nick Blais 
Dramaturgy by: Griffin McInnes 
Assistant Video and Puzzle Designer: Allie Marshall 
Assistant Production Designers: Hans Krause, Julia Howman and Edith Nataprawira 
Creative Technologist: Daniel Oulton 
Sound Design by: Bram Gielen 
Interstitial Sound Designers: Christo Graham and Tucker Bottomley 
Head painter: Edith Nataprawira 
​Head Carpenter: Andrew Chute 
Escape Artists: Kayla Chaterji, Daniel Halpern, Madeleine Jung-Grennan and Bryanna Blackwell 
Model Builder: Bryanna Blackwell
Blindness and Performance Consultant: Devon Healey 
Producer: Katherine Devlin Rosenfeld 
Associate Producer: Zoe Danahy Associate
Producer, Marketing: Rebecca Ballarin, Outside the March
Director of Development: Adam Martens 
Publicity: Red Eye Media
Graphic Design: Kinnon Elliot 
​Photography: Neil Silcox​
The Tape Escape Clerks: Rais Clarke-Mendes, Kavone Manning, Francis Melling, Nick Porteous, Danté Prince, Raylene Turner
The Tape Escape Managers: Tony Cushman, Zoe Danahy
Artistic Accomplices: Luke Avoledo, William Dao, Annie Luján, Abby McEachran, Evgenia Mikhaylova, Merlin Simard
Leading Season Supporters: Audrey S. Hellyer Charitable Foundation, Tamara Zielony, Susanne Boyce, Q Media
Artistic Accomplice Program Lead Supporter: David Binet 
Thanks to the Metcalf Foundation and Theatre Ontario’s Professional Theatre Training Program, funded by the Ontario Arts Council.
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Photo credit: Neil Silcox. Photo source: outsidethemarch.ca
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Photo credit: Neil Silcox. Photo source: outsidethemarch.ca
more on the tape escape
Production History
Presented in the former home of Queen Video (Toronto, Ontario) July 2019. ​
Read more in PLAY: Dramaturgies of Participation: GAME OVER. PLAY AGAIN?, ALEA, GOING ROGUE, EMERGENCE, BAD FAITH
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Photo credit: Neil Silcox. Photo source: outsidethemarch.ca
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Photo credit: Neil Silcox. Photo source: outsidethemarch.ca
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