Where theatrical people play roleplaying games. Each season our players part-improvise a story in a new genre, with roleplaying game rules providing surprising twists and turns. Jump in at the start of any season! The story continues every other Tuesday; on the Tuesdays in between, Backstage episodes shed light on the game and storytelling mechanics behind the scenes.
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With what words they have left, the Rogue Linguists expound on their experiences of the Forbidden Library. Coming up in the Main House – Vigil: The Long Night Programme notes This production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and bereavement (including death of a parent figure), body shaming, and references to…
Act II of III: The False Librarian acquaints the Rogue Linguists with the red acid slap of their own words. Coming next on 3 March – A to Z (Use Your Words Backstage) Programme notes This production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and bereavement (including death of a parent figure), body shaming, and…
Utterances deemed unpalatable by even the False Librarian. (The recording got giddy and I cut a lot out. Here some of it is.) Coming next on 24 February – Use Your Words, Act III Programme notes This production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and bereavement (including death of a parent figure), body shaming,…
Act II of III: Words bleed meaning as False Librarian logophagy value extraction. Demonstration: yassified bakery explosion, lava (not hazardous), horizontal eruption, ceramic skullet Coming next on 17 February – Lost for words (Use Your Words Backstage) Programme notes This production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and…
The players scry and speak their Rogue Linguists into being. (You heard a speedrun of this bit in Act I. This is longer and sillier.) Coming next on 10 February – Use Your Words, Act II Programme notes This production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and bereavement (including death of a parent figure), body…
Act I of III: With a world losing meaning at their backs, the Rogue Linguists present their library cards and enter the nonsense that the Forbidden Library has become. Coming next on 3 February – Rogue Linguists (Use Your Words Backstage) Programme notes This production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and…
No rest for the wicked, they of shaken faith. The players look back on the assignment – and forward to the next…? Coming next in January – Use Your Words, Act 1 Programme notes This production contains violence, body horror, grotesque religious imagery, cults, religious trauma, family trauma, government corruption and oppression, police violence, and references to ritual sacrifice. Play the…
Act 3 of 3: Stockstill in the searchlight. Stand together. Yes, banish hesitation, but it’s okay to look back sometimes too. A god must feed, so can one starve? The Custodians strive for resolution. Coming next on 2 December – Next assignment (It Feeds Backstage) Programme notes This production contains violence, body horror, grotesque religious imagery, cults, religious trauma, family trauma,…
Anywhere can be an altar, and anything can be an offering. The players offer and accept some sacred (and sometimes useful) things. Coming next on 25 November – It Feeds on Fire, Act 3 Programme notes This production contains violence, body horror, grotesque religious imagery, cults, religious trauma, family trauma, government corruption and oppression, police violence, and references to ritual…
Act 2 of 3: Sky falling at the SSPC. Heavy hearts at Ornglen Unbroken. The trains don’t run any more. Nowhere to run. RUN. The Custodians have a theory. Coming next on 18 November – Altars (It Feeds Backstage) Programme notes This production contains violence, body horror, grotesque religious imagery, cults, religious trauma, family trauma, government corruption and oppression, police violence,…
