[BRISBANE, AU] Stephen Atkins and Zen Zen Zo co-artistic director Simon Woods share a nomination for a Matilda Award in the category of Best New Work. This is for the new interactive theatre piece “Sub Con Warrior 2.0″ which premiered in Brisbane, QLD in May 2008.
The project was the result of many months of face to face and online collaboration between Atkins and Woods, culminating in a week-long creative development process in Dec 2007 before the piece went into rehearsal. The challenges of doing a promenade piece of interactive theatre, relying heavily on technology and integration of live and filmed segments rested on the shoulders of an extensive and talented team of creatives.
Sub Con Warrior 2.0 launches the audience members into a virtual reality networked to their subconscious minds. This Sub Con network becomes the platform from which the ‘corporation’ demonstrates its new fight game, Sub Con Warrior 2.0. But something goes wrong during the demo, the artificial intelligence, known as “Game Engine” begins to learn from the moral choices of its human opponents and adopts a ruthless killer instinct.
It is left to the audience and their four noble warriors to find their way out of, and survive, an ever-changing landscape inspired by video games of all genres.
