Wed, 28 January 2009 CPS 057, Kenneth Hite and Cthulhu At GenCon Indy 2008, Rich Rogers picks Ken Hite's brain about Cthulhu in games and also horror gaming.
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The actors came to the stage and asked us for names of our favorite movies. After much hearty shouting: Jaws! Xanadu! Ratatouille! tonight's double feature is decided: Babylon Desire and The Writer. These few hectic minutes on the stage were the only time the actors deliberated the sense and structure of the stories. From then on, they had to wing it. Live.
Within minutes the actors were flinging us from a gentile lawn party to the swirling steppes of some far off planet. The stage was austere, but between the actors' body language, the creative lighting, and flights to florida the brilliant sounds improvised by Joshua Raoul Brody, it was easy to sit back and be flung along.
In fact it was invigorating as, without any warning, the story line careened from one tale to another. Although there were only four actors, they found themselves portraying a cast of at least 528.
It was soon apparent what a game it can be for the actors to spring these scene changes on one another. The more awkward, the better. The crowd adored this challenge, roaring with each predicament, each outrageous solution.
My favorite collision of the scenes happened when the actors crammed into their space pod. It was tight and awkward and I don't know how four grown adults- squeezed into two straight backed chairs, tipped upside down and backwards- kept from laughing out loud. It seemed that flights to new zealand we in the audience gasped all the harder for witnessing the actors' need for restraint.
Chase eventually exited the pod, but the others were too entangled to extricate themselves. He left the scene and immediately turned on his heels, stalked towards the cast and confronted them in his other character, that of the British writer.
Within minutes the actors were flinging us from a gentile lawn party to the swirling steppes of some far off planet. The stage was austere, but between the actors' body language, the creative lighting, and flights to florida the brilliant sounds improvised by Joshua Raoul Brody, it was easy to sit back and be flung along.
In fact it was invigorating as, without any warning, the story line careened from one tale to another. Although there were only four actors, they found themselves portraying a cast of at least 528.
It was soon apparent what a game it can be for the actors to spring these scene changes on one another. The more awkward, the better. The crowd adored this challenge, roaring with each predicament, each outrageous solution.
My favorite collision of the scenes happened when the actors crammed into their space pod. It was tight and awkward and I don't know how four grown adults- squeezed into two straight backed chairs, tipped upside down and backwards- kept from laughing out loud. It seemed that flights to new zealand we in the audience gasped all the harder for witnessing the actors' need for restraint.
Chase eventually exited the pod, but the others were too entangled to extricate themselves. He left the scene and immediately turned on his heels, stalked towards the cast and confronted them in his other character, that of the British writer.
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