Roving Halloween show pits audience against zombie-vampires
Posted October 4, 2016 6:46 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – It’s described as part theatre, part scavenger hunt, part zombie-vampire-mutant extravaganza.
Dead in the Water, the fifth edition of the annual Zombie Syndrome series presented by The Virtual Stage, is now open on Granville Island.
Unlike most theatrical performances, The Zombie Syndrome requires audience members to use their smartphones to solve puzzles and navigate different story locations.
“It’s a half-scripted, half-improvised show with the audience in the lead role,” series creator and director Andy Thompson explains. “Everyone who comes into the experience will be given and endowed with a special skill that they will have to use in the epic quest they will undertake that evening.”
The audience’s goal, as always, is to prevent the zombie apocalypse. Like a “choose your own adventure” story, there are multiple endings the audience can experience based on their decisions.
Thompson says after finding success mashing up zombies with aliens last season, this year’s show pits the audience against zombie-vampires.
“They are immersed into a world in which they are forced to work for the Canadian government to save the world from zombies,” he says. “There are performers playing good guys, bad guys, zombies, vampires, zombie-vampire-mutants.”
The show runs five times a night, six nights a week in the run-up to Halloween. Opening night is sold out.
Ticket-buyers are advised to dress for the weather, and be prepared to get on the water at some point.
