For the better part of the last 36 years, all the world’s been a stage for Chris Rohmann. The Advocate’s longtime theater critic has had a front seat view to thousands of plays in the Valley. With that seat, he has penned his perspective on.
‘Stagehand’: EggTooth Productions to host interactive theater performance later this month
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Contributed photos Screenshots from October’s production of “Stagehand” show how audiences participate remotely through the eyes of the stage-crew avatar, Charlie, seen through Zoom screens that are windows into the interior world of the play. Photos contributed
Published: 2/19/2021 2:50:33 PM
In the 12 months since COVID-19 shuttered performance spaces around the region and the globe, ghosts fill the darkened venues.
Wrangling some of those ghosts is the challenge of one fictional stagehand at the centerpiece of a coming live theatrical videogame show that Greenfield-based Eggtooth Productions is presenting with The Shea Theatre in Turners Falls and Northampton’s Academy of Music. The production will be Zoom-ing out of both theaters Feb. 18-20 and 25-27, twice nightly.