Red [Redacted] Theatre” is an immersive game that teaches players about queer history through puzzle-based tangible interaction. Inspired by and using archival materials from the Red Dyke Theatre, a lesbian theater group founded in the early 1970s, the project allows viewers to immerse themselves within a physical, narrative experience of the group’s activities from 1972- 1978. The installation uses tangible physical interactions to illuminate archival materials such as show notes, stage programs, photographs, and props, in order to unlock narratives about queer identity, community, and belonging in 1970s Atlanta. With this experience, players are guided more deeply into queer theories and understandings of history through solving and play: from a more familiar “surface” understanding of history, into a discovery of queer histories, and eventually even further into a more abstracted challenging and breaking of familiar language and constructs. 

This event will be held virtually on Microsoft Teams.