A comprehensive collection of materials that enables users to recreate the machina-eX classic 15,000 Gray—available online as an open-source project.
How can you document a game theater play? Is it possible to produce a guide for recreating a live interactive performance?
During a two-week research stint at the FFT Düsseldorf, machina eX set a goal to develop some systematic documentation for its most popular game—maybe just for the archives, but maybe also for a new production by a state-sponsored theater or school theater group.
The result is a website both extensive and incomplete that also showcases the project’s challenges. There are descriptions, as detailed as possible, of all the elements of the theater game 15.000 Gray. In the spirit of the project motto Give It Away! the website is an open-source project available to everyone free of charge.
Among other elements, the DIY Kit contains a complete script, stage directions, and instructions for rebuilding technical equipment. A combination of an archive, a coding tutorial, and a director’s script that’s designed to inspire (re)makes.
Credit: machina eX
Development machina eX (Lasse Marburg, Yves Regenass, Philip Steimel)
Production: machina eX and FFT Düsseldorf