Tape Escape by Outside the March

Escape room meets immersive performance set in a 90s video store. ​
Attended in Summer 2019 in Toronto, ON. 
Co-creators: Vanessa Smythe, Mitchell Cushman and Nick Bottomley Production Designers: Anahita Dehbonehie and Nick Blais Dramaturg: Griffin McInnes Assistant Video and Puzzle Designer: Allie Marshall Assistant Production Designers: Hans Krause, Julia Howman and Edith Nataprawira Creative Technologist: Daniel Oulton Sounds Designer: 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 BlackwellBlindness 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​
Most video stores let you take the movies home. But at THE TAPE ESCAPE, the rentals happen to you, pulling you deep inside its collection of thousands of VHS Tapes. Disappear back into 1999 with this love-letter to the lost art of browsing. See if you can escape into (and out of) some of your favourite movies by selecting from our collection of “in store rentals”.

Three In-Store Rentals to Choose From 
  • Love Without Late Fees
  • A Grown-up’s Guide to Flying
  • Yesterday’s Heroes 
“Outside the March’s foray into the booming world of Escape Rooms—a series of story-based, puzzle-infused mysteries staged inside of a brick-and-mortar VHS rental store.”
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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

An Outside the March Experience in association with David Versus Goliath Productions

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
Thanks to Theatre Ontario’s Professional Theatre Training Program, funded by the Ontario Arts Council.