We’ve just finished a month of Saturday workshops trying out some of the games we’ve created for This Is A Door. We had a blast and the feedback we got from the playtesters was invaluable for developing the games. Click through to have a look at the photos of some of the games we played… Read More
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Footage of our Melbourne International Comedy Festival show 2012
So we’ve cut together one of the nights of our Comedy Festival game and uploaded it to share around. Check out the fun for yourself:
Mass Werewolf for MICF from popupplayers on Vimeo.
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Pop Up Playground (Time Out interview)
Pop Up Playground
Thu 19 Apr ,
Pop Up Playground launch their first adventure in pervasive game playing with a massive game of the parlour classic, Werewolf
First published on 25 Feb 2012. Updated on 20 Apr 2012.
According to Robert Reid, it started almost a year ago, last April, when Tassos Stevens from UK-based company Coney quietly slipped into Melbourne for a week of workshops, described at the time by Stevens as “challenges towards how to be a playful secret agent”.
“He basically introduced us to the kind of work Coney does – a form of pervasive games,” explains Reid.Read More
Pop Up Playground (The Pun review)
Pop Up Playground
31 March 2012 Barbara Welton
Violence! Voting! Vaginas! Tax collectors! All that – and some peculiar hats as well.
If you like your comedy on the interactive side, if you like the idea of comedians talking with you instead of merely at you, then Pop Up Playground is here for you. Take a walk up the stairs of the John Curtin Hotel and find yourself plunged into murder, mystery and the obviously difficult democratic process.
Pop Up Playground is a team of comics brave enough to let the audience decide the fate of characters and the course of the narrative. Emceed by the always erudite and quick-witted Ben McKenzie, the format appears to be only loosely scripted, allowing plenty of ad lib opportunity for performers and open conferring with audience members throughout the show.Read More
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