Developed by Zoyander Street and Dietrich “Squinky” Squinkifer Starring Xander Graves, Fadumo Hassan, and Caitlin Magnall-Kearns Edited by Terri Silver

Is ‘Society’ In The Room With Us Now? Performed 21st November 7pm UK time Hedi (Fadumo Hassan) is a rising star of the tech world, and nobody knows they are secretly an alien anthropologist. Hedi is optimistic about the future - we’re going to solve all our problems with increasingly powerful technology, just like Star Trek. But when the tech world lets them down, it’s up to the audience to decide how they will respond. This is the second episode of Intrapology. Watch Episode One, Assigned Earth at Birth, at https://peertube.intrapology.com/w/fFzxzY6bkNEbYzptvYY4s1

Presented in partnership with Queerness and Games Conference

Intrapology is all about how people make worlds together, and the cataclysmic social fragmentation that threatens to unmake them. It focuses on the perspectives of neurodivergent queer folk, as alien anthropologists doing fieldwork on earth. They interact via video call with their supervisors at the fictional Transdimensional Research Institute, an alien university that has been decimated by cuts to the fabric of reality. Together they expose the comedy and terror of living in a world that was not built with people like you in mind. The audience collectively shapes the story, experiencing the show on a web page that looks like the protagonist’s computer desktop. Through this online format, Intrapology aims to reach disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent audiences that have been left behind by the return to in-person events. It aims to move beyond the limitations of online theatre as we know it, with an approach to design that draws on alternative indie games culture. “This is like a narrative-driven indie videogame, but it’s performed live by real actors”, says creator Zoyander Street, who has been working at the weird fringes of games since the early 2010s. This project began life as a 2021 collaboration between Zoyander and Canadian queer games artist Dietrich “Squinky” Squinkifer. “As a chronically-ill queer person living in Rotherham in the 2020s, it can sometimes feel like the rest of the world has vanished. I rely on online events and communities to feel alive and connected to others.”