Legendary: Sweet Slice of Liberty

Coming off the success of Cabaret Rising in the Dupont Underground, Rachel is performing in Legendary: Sweet Slice of Liberty, a new immersive performance from TBD Immersive at Slim's Diner. Rachel plays Jan, a powerful demigod who runs the diner as a gathering place for the supernatural Legends to meet with the humans whose lives they influence. Check out some of the news coverage surrounding this innovative new production.

From DCTheatreScene:

‘Legendary: Sweet Slice of Liberty’ by TBD Immersive

TBD Immersive is back with an immersive tale of supernatural beings performed in a DC diner.

By Mukul Ranjan

TBD Immersive, DC’s very own immersive theater company, brings a new production to the city this weekend. This time the show comes to life at Slim’s, a funky DC diner located at the corner of Georgia & Upshur in Petworth.

A ticket for the new experience, Legendary: Sweet Slice of Liberty, gets you a three-course meal with the gods (“Legends”), a new outlook for our beleaguered country, and the opportunity to bring out your inner thespian!

TBD Immersive focuses on experiential design theater. What is experiential design? It’s a story turned into a three-dimensional world, sort of like a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book. Immersive theater blurs the line between audience and performer. Audience members are encouraged to engage in this imaginary world with full agency over their own experience.

This “Legendary” dinner will be open to a few lucky humans for a limited time starting this Friday the 10th, and will run till August 25th.

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From DCist:

Slim's Diner Will Play Host To An 'Immersive Culinary Pop Up'

By Lori McCue

On a normal day, Slim's Diner's staff includes a team of trained waiters and hosts. On weekend evenings next month, it will consist of costumed actors locked in their own magical realist story. TBD Immersive, the theater company focused on interactive, choose-your-own-adventure-style theater, is taking over Slim's to stage its next original production, Legendary.

At the show, which will run for three weekends in August, diners—er, theatergoers—will buy tickets for a three-course meal and enjoy dinner as a story unfolds around them.

As TBD artistic director Strother Gaines explains it, the weird, Neil Gaiman-esque plot of Legendary follows a group of demigods, each representing a pillar of society, including Celebrity/Wealth, Religion/Spirituality, Justice, and Small-Town Values. They use Slim's Diner as a sort of escape from their world, and spend the evening gabbing, starting drama, and serving dinner.

"You watch fights develop," says Gaines, who also stars in the production. For example: "Wealth/Celebrity and Religion/Spirituality could be rivals, but you find out they dated in high school."

[...] Expect a few surprises along the way: After all, this is the theater company that last season debuted in D.C. with a futuristic dystopian cabaret, complete with fire breathers, aerialists, and contortionists, at Blind Whino and Dupont Underground. At TBD shows, audience members are expected to wander around and interact with the cast and set. So go ahead, ask for extra ketchup. Just see what happens.

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