LA: Captivated: Act One: Justine (Remount)
They Played Productions remounts its disquieting cocktail party
When: August 10–12
Where: North Hollywood, near Lankershim/Magnolia; the specific location to be given out 24 hours in advance
Price: $40, 21+
Tags: #immersivetheatre, #LARP, #interactive, #21+, #headgames #horror, #Contact Advisory, #ContentAdvisory (see below)
We saw Captivated Chapter One: Justine earlier this year, and are still singing its praises. Check out our review of the original production.
With only 5 audience members per performance, Justine is an intimate dinner party experience. Justine is the first act of a larger 3-part story “Captivated”. It is a modern version of a classic horror tale, told through the various perspectives and interactions of the guests at a dinner party. Each of them has what they appear to be on the surface and another story happening underneath.
The experience will last between 60–75 minutes, depending on audience’s choices.
Audience members will interact as themselves at a dinner party and are able to respond however they wish to the events happening in front of them.
From the original teaser:
It’s been a while since you had pizza and drinks with your friend Victoria, so you’re excited that she’s invited you to hang out tonight!
She’s promised an intimate evening of just a few people at her place, including her friend since childhood, Ely, and his new girlfriend. Although you’ve never met either of them, Victoria promises they’re perfectly wonderful people.
Then, of course, you get there. And you decide to look a little deeper…
Conversations will ebb and flow within the group as a whole, individually, in sidebars, balcony discussions, car chats, and whispered asides. The dark story weaves around relationships, friendships, loyalty, and other pitfalls of social interaction. The friends (our intimate audience) will need to listen, question, explore, and dig deeper if they dare. There is more to these new friends than is on the surface, for as they say… Los Angeles has all sorts. Once your evening concludes, it’s up to you to compare notes with your entourage to know what else was said and fill in the missing pieces to the puzzling tales. You can’t be everywhere at once.
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Contact Level: Light (Business/Acquaintance)
Content Advisories: Depending on the interactions guests make, they may encounter conversations about the following themes:
* Psychological Horror
* Murder
* Obsessive Behavior
* Stalking
* Violence
* Conspiracies
* Sexual Themes
* Imprisonment
And while we do not believe that this production truly crosses into the ‘sexual violence’ advisory category based on what occurs AT the event, we wish to be safe in warning individuals that conversations may hint at such issues in the PAST.
There are no aspects of haunts, extreme immersive acts, gore, actual confinement or any other harder aspects to this chapter of Captivated. It is designed to affect your mind and not your body.
While there may be light touching between audience members and cast, it will be by audience consent only.
Due to the nature of this event, limited audience mobility is necessary. Audiences will be expected to traverse an apartment building lobby and enter an apartment.
