Gently Down the Stream

actors and audience in the same boat                                                                          screen shot

"We don't work inside of a normal theater, so we are subject to the wind and the rain and the cold, for starters. Beyond that, there are racoons, there are cops ... Every single night there's some sort of calamity that we're faced with," says Jeff Stark, whose interactive The Dreary Coast is staged on one of Brooklyn's most polluted canals, standing in for the River Styx (video): http://www.theguardian.com/stage/video/2014/nov/04/dreary-coast-brooklyn
   Audience members who paid to be in the boat got the complete experience, but the evening netted a mixed review from those on terra firma: http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/nov/04/the-dreary-coast-review-immersive-theatre-boat-goes-adrift