Adventure Quest Goes To Brooklyn

This summer The Brick Theater in Brooklyn will debut Adventure Quest – a play built around PC adventure gaming of the 80s and early 90s.

The production projects vintage game graphics onto the stage, uses 8-bit era music and an EGA color palette theme for set pieces and costumes. The story is about a generic Hero type who goes out to fight the dreaded Octopus Cult and win the love of a Peasant Girl.

Adventure Quest uses common conventions and pitfalls from PC adventure gaming to move the plot forward. There's a scene in which the Hero finds himself in a cemetery with no idea what to do. In desperation, he randomly starts combining things in his inventory and trying to give them to a man he meets. Finally, and for no apparent reason, the man accepts a tea set, makes Cemetary Tea and the hero is allowed to continue on.

Adventure Quest's debut is part of a series of plays in The Brick's Antidepressant Festival that all explore happiness and adjustment in the face of difficult or depressing situations.

Adventure Quest hits The Brick June 2 for the Antidepressant Festival and will keep running from July 2 through July 25 as part of the Game Play theater showcase, which features three different plays that take place within or are built around video games.

(via Kotaku)