New Societies Online

About this event

An interactive theatrical experience to create your ideal society in a mega-game of collaboration, competition, and potential. Build, risk, advance, succumb. What happens next depends on you.

Join us for a mega-game of collaboration, competition, and potential Utopia. New Societies draws together the forms of a strategic board game and a theatrical narrative, all shaped by the choices you make as you play. This new interactive digital performance has been a hit with audiences of all ages in cities across Canada. Join us from your home – as a single player, with kids, or with a partner (any combination is possible!) – for the new digital edition of New Societies.

Guided by a set of facilitators, you’ll be placed in groups over a custom online platform to compete against or collaborate with other players in order to build your ideal society. Be careful, because as your choices shape the direction of your group, there are seven other societies also creating an ever growing and responsive landscape.

Filled with humour and levity, New Societies is a playful challenge to reflect on how we operate within our current world, while giving players the opportunity to be the catalysts in crafting a better one.

Play on your own, with a team at home, with friends in an online team! Please note there is a maximum of 6 players per team.

Original trailer courtesy of Crow’s Theatre

Accessibility

Due to the live and interactive nature of this production, it is not currently being offered with captions or audio description. However, audiences may enable Google Chrome’s live caption during the performance. If you have any access requirements or require specific information about the production, please contact recurrenttheatre@gmail.com who will try to assist you.

How to Access

You will receive a unique link to the New Societies Online platform for your reserved date.

The majority of the performance is interactive. It is recommended to reserve one ticket per player. If playing as a household, you may be still be designated a single player capability for the duration of the performance, unless otherwise indicated upon reserving your performance.

New Societies Online is played in groups of six. If you would like to play with friends or family as part of a team, email jarin@rumble.org your names and email addresses prior to the date of the performance. Please note there is a maximum of 6 players per team.

New Societies Online is not compatible with mobile or tablet devices. It is best experienced using Google Chrome web browser on a laptop or computer with good internet connection. You will need to have your camera and microphone on for the duration of the performance, and it’s advised you wear headphones.