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.
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Production Credits (2016)
Directed, written & produced by: Andy Thompson Production manager: Tee Crane Stage manager: 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 |
Photo source: thevirtualstage.org
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Production History
Granville Island, Vancouver, BC / 4-31 October 2016. (Zombie Syndrome: Dead in the Water)
Trout Lake, Vancouver, BC / 6 October - 1 November 2015. (Zombie Syndrome: Alien Contagion) Gastown, Vancouver, BC / 7 October - 2 November 2014. (Zombie Syndrome: On Death's Door) Granville Island, Vancouver, BC / 1 October - 3 November 2013. (Zombie Syndrome: On Death Island) Downtown Vancouver, BC / 11 October - 3 November 2012. (The Zombie Syndrome) Read more in PLAY: Dramaturgies of Participation: GOING ROGUE, SECRET WEIRDOS
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Awards
2013/14 Critics' Choice Innovation Award
20212/13 Significant Artistic Achievement: Logistical and Technical Innovation
2021/13 Critics' Choice Innovation Award
20212/13 Significant Artistic Achievement: Logistical and Technical Innovation
2021/13 Critics' Choice Innovation Award
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.