Stories to Get Us Through the Night

Stories to Get Us Through the Night is a play with multiple endings in which the audience members use candles to determine which of four distinct endings is experienced by the characters. The story follows three storytellers at a makeshift academy 50 years after an apocalyptic event. People now live in semi-nomadic groups, depending on a “teller” to share stories that help them fall asleep at night. There are two points during the show when the audience members use their candles to choose between stories, choosing to illuminate or obscure what they hear. We ask “what kind of stories do you want to hear at the end of the world?”

This is an experience that can be performed as a play with actors, read aloud with a group of friends, or explored in a room all by yourself.

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This digital download of the interactive script is published by The Living Room. The text, cover illustrations, and layout are by Erin Gray, and the photographs from the February 2024 Brick Aux production are by Biagi Calicchia. Art on cover image and banner are by Elizabeth Butler.