It’s an OddKnock Life: Denver’s Immersive, Participatory Storytellers
When thinking about what an immersive production can and should be, OddKnock Productions is leading the way. The Denver-based theatrical troupe was formed by Brendan Duggan, Parker Murphy, and Zach Martens — New York actors who met working at Sleep No More (the OG immersive theater experience based on Shakespeare's Macbeth). A decision to pivot from acting to producing landed the group in Denver in the spring of 2021. Faced with a unique set of creative limitations, OddKnock made a quiet (but clever) unveiling that summer with a free five-part series they called Test Kitchen. For each performance, OddKnock spent two weeks writing, building, and rehearsing. Whatever they had at the end of those two weeks was what they showed, for one weekend only. Then they started the process all over again for the next one. https://www.youtube.com/embed/xPmLcwGaJPY Building on the success of Test Kitchen, OddKnock debuted their first full-length production in the summer of 2022, From on High — a corporate 80’s satire derived from one of the five original Test Kitchen performances. This mind-blowing experience, (which was detailed for NoProscenium), pulled in audience members in completely unexpected ways. An IRL choose-your-own-adventure At From on High, more than four hours...
