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 
Sound 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 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.
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