{"id":27074,"date":"2025-08-10T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/?p=27074"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:18:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:18:32","slug":"new-earth-bandits-2-offers-choose-your-own-adventure-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2025\/08\/10\/new-earth-bandits-2-offers-choose-your-own-adventure-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"New Earth Bandits 2<\/em> offers choose-your-own-adventure theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"

For centuries, theatre has been a fairly static affair where the audience gathers in an auditorium and quietly watches an ensemble of performers. However, a local theatre group is on a mission to defy all of that.<\/p>\n

SNAFU Society of Unexpected Spectacles prides itself in creating non-linear unconventional productions that appeal to a wider demographic. New Earth Bandits 2<\/i> is a reimagined presentation of SNAFU\u2019s 2023 show that collaborates with artists and performers from the local community who were presented with the query \u201cWhat is the world going to look like in 5,000 years?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOne reason why we chose 5,000 years is we really wanted to give people an opportunity to dream up futures that were beyond where the world is right now, because the world right now feels very hopeless,\u201d says SNAFU co-artistic producer Kathleen Greenfield. \u201cThere\u2019s potential for hope if we think beyond our current kind of political structures. Five thousand years is an opportunity for the world to crash and be rebuilt a few times, so we\u2019re really presenting potential utopias or dystopias.\u201d<\/p>\n

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New Earth Bandits 2 expands on the original New Earth Bandits from 2023, seen here (photo by Helene Cyr).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The show will feature community creatives in the fields of art, dancing, performance, acrobatics, music, building, and crafting who will each present their interpretation of the prompt. Compared to the original New Earth Bandits<\/i>, this show improves on feedback SNAFU received about that show\u2019s accessibility and ease of consumption, and features new interpretations of the same concept.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAudience members move through the worlds, they choose their own adventures, and this whole world is created of possible futures that the audience can experience,\u201d says Greenfield. \u201cThere\u2019s also interactive games and singing, like learning a choral song together. We really wanted to create a 3D experience, an experience for folks who are neurodivergent, or folks who don\u2019t love sitting down and watching theatre, to be able to choose their own adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greenfield says interactive theatre that viewers can consume at their own pace in their own way is unusual, and it\u2019s one of the driving motivations behind SNAFU\u2019s artistic model.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a new way of seeing, a new way of experiencing theatre,\u201d she says. \u201cI especially like to target people who don\u2019t usually go to theatre because they find it restrictive; this is like an immersive experience where you get to be part of the show, and I think that SNAFU theatre has always been that kind of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event will be held in the battlements at Macaulay Point, and will be timed to occur during the sunset. Greenfield says the show is so expansive that it\u2019s unlikely that the audience will be able to see everything in a single viewing, so they\u2019re encouraged to return as many times as they would like, at a discount. She says that co-artistic producer Ingrid Hansen and herself want to experience something more immersive and vibrant than traditional theatre.<\/p>\n

\u201cIngrid and I both really love to make theatre alive again, to transcend this idea that it\u2019s just a piece of text that someone has memorized and is presenting back to the audience,\u201d she says. \u201cWe dabble in puppetry, and clown, and physical theatre, and for me it\u2019s because that\u2019s what speaks to me… I feel enlivened when I see bodies moving, but I often don\u2019t feel that same experience with text-based work or traditional theatre.\u201d<\/p>\n

New Earth Bandits 2
\n<\/i>6:30 pm, various dates, Thursday, August 14 to Sunday, August 24
\n$20-$40, Macaulay Point
\nsnafudance.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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