The Virtual Stage ·
The Stage Manager is Called BLIP: On a Robot That Runs the Show
Prompter, assistant director and clown rolled into one: we ask whether BLIP, the flying robot from Laser Thief, carries his role or simply gets on your nerves.
Department
The Virtual Stage
Virtual and mixed-reality games reviewed the way theatre is: staging, atmosphere, performance and whether it earns its interval.
11 pieces
The Virtual Stage ·
The Set Grows with the Room: Scenography in 25 cm Tiles
Tank Avenger leaves the set design to an algorithm and your own floor. We ask whether scenography can work without a scenographer.
The Virtual Stage ·
The Living Room as Stage: Sozo – Tower Defence in Preview
A premiere before the premiere: Sozo as staging, with your own room as the stage and the player as a stagehand armed with fists.
The Virtual Stage ·
The Dramaturgy of the Jump Scare: How HAUNTED Paces Silence, Stinger and Hit
Ten seconds of calm, six seconds of dead silence, four seconds of black: we count how HAUNTED paces its scares and where the metronome becomes too loud.
The Virtual Stage ·
Tank Avenger: A war in doll's-house scale, staged on your own floor
A tank war nine centimetres tall, staged on the living-room floor: Tank Avenger is smaller than it sounds and bigger than it looks.
The Virtual Stage ·
Malgrath, the Hollow King: A Villain Who Stays Behind the Curtain
Malgrath shatters the crystal and sends eight warlords ahead of him rather than appearing himself. Is the absent antagonist a strength or an omission?
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Laser Thief as a stage play: a heist in three acts, and you play every role
Start pad, the snatch, the way back: Laser Thief stages every heist like a three-act play – and turns your living room into a stage on which you stand alone.
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Four Acts, Four Finales: City Limits to Endless Winter
Tank Avenger closes each of its four chapters with a finale that puts everything the house has on stage. Does the arc hold across four acts?
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Eight Realms, Eight Sets: Reading Sozo's Worlds as Backdrops
From Verdant Hollow to Neon Overdrive: which of Sozo's eight worlds has a signature of its own, and which is merely pretty wallpaper?
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Dancing Lasers reviewed: Ten shows, one golden idol and no curtain call
Laser Thief's rhythm mode reviewed as a dance revue: ten shows, three rounds, beams on the kick drum. Big number or nice encore?
The Virtual Stage ·
Curtain Up in the Living Room: HAUNTED Read as an Evening of Theatre
An overture on the telephone, seven acts on your own wall, a single scene change: we review HAUNTED as one reviews a premiere.