EverScape

by Allan Maule

EverScape follow​​s four city dwellers who clock out of mind-numbing day jobs each day to get online and play their favorite fantasy video game. But when EverScape Inc. offers them the chance to play their way to jobs as game developers, the ​lines ​between reality and the virtual world start to blur.​ This forces them to question: What’s more real: the game, or their lives?

Written for a bare stage, the...

EverScape follow​​s four city dwellers who clock out of mind-numbing day jobs each day to get online and play their favorite fantasy video game. But when EverScape Inc. offers them the chance to play their way to jobs as game developers, the ​lines ​between reality and the virtual world start to blur.​ This forces them to question: What’s more real: the game, or their lives?

Written for a bare stage, the script relies on movement and fight choreography from the cast of eight to create the dotted lines between the game world and their urban reality.

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  • Sam Baird: EverScape

    This play is so fascinating. We live in a world right now where it is often hard to separate our real lives from our digital lives. Although we may not all be involved with online gaming like the characters in this play, this play is very relatable for anyone with any kind of online presence. I saw myself in this script as someone who is very present on social media. We don't need to cut out the digital from our lives, but this play reminds me of the importance of staying anchored in reality too.

    This play is so fascinating. We live in a world right now where it is often hard to separate our real lives from our digital lives. Although we may not all be involved with online gaming like the characters in this play, this play is very relatable for anyone with any kind of online presence. I saw myself in this script as someone who is very present on social media. We don't need to cut out the digital from our lives, but this play reminds me of the importance of staying anchored in reality too.

Development History

  • Type Reading, Organization Cardinal Gibbons Black Box Theater, Year 2014

Production History

  • Type Professional, Organization Sonorous Road Theatre, Year 2017
  • Type Professional, Organization Bare Theater, Year 2016
  • Type Fringe, Organization NYC Fringe Festival, Year 2015

Awards

  • Best in the Triangle
    Raleigh News and Observer
    Honorable Mention
    2016
  • 5 of the Hottest Shows Not to Miss at FringeNYC
    Playbill
    Honorable Mention
    2015