asses.masses is an internationally touring videogame for the stage designed to be played live by an audience in a theatre as an epic eight-hour collective journey.

Join them for a conversation and inside look at their practice of bridging games and performance to foster civic engagement, democratic collaboration, and social action. Together, Patrick and Laurel will dig into how asses.masses was made, take apart its dramaturgy, and discuss what touring the show internationally for over 50 performances has taught them. They will reflect on the ways in which playing together shapes how we live, work, and build community.

This talk will be followed by a Q&A with Patrick and Laurel, chaired by Joe Strickland, Creative Director of award-winning Nottingham-based theatre company Chronic Insanity.

• Doors open: 5.30PM
• Talk start: 5:40PM
• Q&A: 6:45PM
• Finish: 7:15PM

asses.masses is a custom videogame designed to be played from beginning to end by a live audience, one person at a time.

A 7+ hour epic story of a herd of unemployed donkeys trying to get their jobs back, all while navigating the perils of a post-Industrial society in which they’ve been made redundant.

Cheeky, political, and best described as Animal Farm meets Pokémon meets Final Fantasy, asses.masses puts the control(ler) in its audience’s hands and asks them to discover the space between the work that defines us and the play that frees us.