Eschaton
Creative Consultant
The Verge: Eschaton is a surreal Zoom nightclub — and a theater for the age of social distancing
New York Times: And in the Next Zoom Room, a Rat Doing a Striptease
A virtual nightclub offering immersive theatre for the age of social distancing. Guests explore a series of Zoom rooms containing disparate variety performances, tied together through an ARG puzzle hunt that reveals a sprawling underlying narrative beneath the nightclub’s vaudeville glitz.
photos by Ioulex for The New York Times
“Each room contained something different and unexpected. In one, a girl strummed a viola and told dirty jokes; next door, a giant rat performed a striptease to the soundtrack of a lecture on Taoism. There was a cooking tutorial, a magician doing card tricks, a burlesque performer contorting on a chaise longue.
It was “Eschaton”: part theater, part nightlife simulator, part Chatroulette, taking place Saturday nights on Zoom. It conveys the illusion of being a maze of interconnected rooms, even though all of its performers are livestreaming their disparate, usually solo contributions from their homes.”
