Two Minutes’ Traffic: The Twenty-Sided Tavern at the Kennedy Center
It’s funny how things work out sometimes. You tell a story of the fight between good and evil, leaving the outcome to a combination of the random chance of a dice roll and the abilities and choices of a band of people united in common purpose. And you book that story on a national tour and sometimes, you make your DC debut where the portrait of a rising dictator has been screwed into the marble walls and the fight becomes “whose story are we telling and who has the right to tell it where and how.” Funny old world. Anyway, The Twenty-Sided Tavern wraps up its run at the Kennedy Center this weekend! TST is an unusual theatrical creation, using the framework of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign, a rotating crew of improvisational storytellers, and a stage hung with an impressive theatrical set, lighting, and projection design to create a story together with the audience in 2.5 hours. Repeat audiences will notice the ways in which the big story beats remain locked in while the detail...
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