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"BEST BEFORE"

Even if you're not a 'gamer' I think you might be excited about attending this thing that The PuSh Festival is putting on and that we're co-sponsoring. Basically 200 people hang out at the Cultch and play an interactive video game together.

Even if you're not a 'gamer' I think you might be excited about attending this thing that The PuSh Festival is putting on and that we're co-sponsoring. Basically 200 people hang out at the Cultch and play an interactive video game together. Everybody has a controller. It's gonna be nuts...

photo: jeremy lim

The official word from PuSh:

The PuSh Festival needs your help! We are looking for 400 participants over 2 sessions (that’s 200 people a test) to be a part of the development and testing of a brand new work entitled Best Before that the PuSh Festival has commissioned from the renowned German theatre company Rimini Protokoll. This show will premiere in late January 2010 as part of the PuSh Festival.

A large part of this show involves an interactive video game, with each of the 200 audience members participating with their own game controller. In the late stages of development we need YOU to help us test this complex gaming system prior to the opening of the show.

WHEN: Friday, January 22nd from 7pm – 9:30pm and Monday, January 25th from 7pm – 9:30pm.

WHERE: Historic Theatre at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre (Venables @ Victoria)

WHY: Because you will be previewing ground breaking theatre and video game technology as it continues to move towards production.

HOW: If you want to attend please R.S.V.P. to PuSh’s Associate Producer Dani Fecko at dani@pushfestival.ca

About the project:

Best Before pulls the multi-player video game out of the virtual realm and plugs it into an intimate theatre setting. A simulated city evolves as each of 200 spectators add their personal touch, game controller in hand. At first you are an anonymous avatar but then you take on human dimensions as audience members clash, collaborate and negotiate the forces that shape reality here in the third millennium.

The work of Rimini Protokoll is a theatre of Münchausian escapades. Having created over 20 new works - all sharing a very distinct house style - the company has attracted attention throughout Europe for blurring the line between reality and fiction. With non-actors such as construction flaggers, game designers, professors of pathology, elderly women, unemployed air traffic controllers and retired miniature train enthusiasts, “experts in daily life” are the real protagonists for Rimini Protokoll.