Shelter Skelter

Shelter Skelter is a literal, spacial exploration of the ways in which we build up and knock down emotional and mental boundaries, and how our feelings compel us to do so. Together in an outdoor arena theatre, each tucked away inside our homes, this play is a moment of wistful, vulnerable onstage human connection, born out of a moment in which live theatre was all but a distant hope.

Shelter Skelter is a short play that was developed for, and within, the format of the game Minecraft. The script was developed in part through in-game creative exercises with the actors and director. The piece was performed to an audience of gamers via their avatars, and this performance was filmed and subsequently shown at the Brooklyn College Black Box Festival of plays in virtual media in December 2020, for which it was first conceived. The recording was also streamed on Twitch in the 51st installment of the virtual microfestival, “Out of an Abundance of Caution.”

For full credits of cast and production team, please see the rolling credits at the conclusion of the video.