The Zombie Syndrome
Teams of audience-players, each with different ‘powers,’ work collaboratively with live actors in a large-scale, outdoors, scavenger-hunt experience to prevent the zombie apocalypse.
Production Credits (2016)
Directed, written & produced by Andy Thompson Production management by Tee Crane Stage management by Josephine Gray Costume design & site management by Natalie Collins Technical direction & site management by Michael Brooks Story by Tyler Clarke, Finn Ghosh-Leudke & Andy Thompson Youth liaison Amelia MacKenzie-Gray-Hyre Marketing & communications by Murray Paterson Marketing Group (MPMG) MPMG Account Manager Sarah Ghosh Makeup design & coordination by Elizabeth McLeod Neartuit iBeacon app developers Judy Hamilton & D'Arcy Smith (TerraTap) Additional visual content design by Corwin Ferguson Site managers Giovanni (Gio) Zarata & Milan Mitrovic Cast Christina Brownell, Evan Gilmore, Jared Hubicka, Jennifer Hughes, Miranda Rose Pavelic, Rowan Jang, Ryan Speckeen, Sarah Omran, Sinead Grewcock, Tyler Clarke, Wael Ribe, and others |
Production History
Granville Island, Vancouver, BC / October 4-31, 2016. (Zombie Syndrome: Dead in the Water)
Trout Lake, Vancouver, BC / October 6-November 1, 2015. (Zombie Syndrome: Alien Contagion)
Gastown, Vancouver, BC / October 7-November 2, 2014. (Zombie Syndrome: On Death's Door)
Granville Island, Vancouver, BC / October 1-November 3, 2013. (Zombie Syndrome: On Death Island)
Downtown Vancouver, BC / October 11-November 3, 2012. (The Zombie Syndrome)
Trout Lake, Vancouver, BC / October 6-November 1, 2015. (Zombie Syndrome: Alien Contagion)
Gastown, Vancouver, BC / October 7-November 2, 2014. (Zombie Syndrome: On Death's Door)
Granville Island, Vancouver, BC / October 1-November 3, 2013. (Zombie Syndrome: On Death Island)
Downtown Vancouver, BC / October 11-November 3, 2012. (The Zombie Syndrome)
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Articles
Andy Thompson, “The Virtual Stage’s Zombie Syndrome: Interactive Gaming on the Mean Streets of Vancouver,” Canadian Theatre Review 178 (Spring 2019): 20-25.
Alien Contagion: The Rise of the Zombie Syndrome in Long Live the New Flesh: Six Plays from the Digital Frontier, edited by David Owen (Playwrights Canada, 2021), 1–42.
Alien Contagion: The Rise of the Zombie Syndrome in Long Live the New Flesh: Six Plays from the Digital Frontier, edited by David Owen (Playwrights Canada, 2021), 1–42.