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Join Coney’s Tassos Stevens (director) and Matthew Hawn (commissioner), as they discuss “Evergreen,” a sprawling three-month adventure inspired by Matthew’s wife Molly’s love of children’s literature and the couple’s 20th wedding anniversary. After captivating 40,000 people with “The Golden Key” in Autumn 2023, legendary theatre company Coney embarked on a

“We’re wired as humans for narrative, we make sense of the world through narrative. But we learn through play, we’ve learned through mistakes, to be honest, right? It’s the place you can mess up. So when you have a narrative and play, and then you add location to it, be

Alternate reality games (ARGs) are the closest that creatives can get to acting in live performances without physically getting on a stage. ARGs span a surprisingly wide range of experiences, from months-long massively multiplayer games taking place across dozens of websites like The Beast to smaller experiences occurring on TikTok

What are ARGs? Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) are interactive networked narratives that use the real world as a platform, often involving multiple types of media and game elements to tell a story that may be affected by the players.  Transmedia storytelling, closely related to ARGs and arguably a key element