The Lord of Misrule

Misrule Theatre Co

LOCATION: Salt Lake City, Utah

SYNOPSIS: Concept: The Lord of Misrule is a devised theatre production where the audience influences the show! Audience members are given a deck of cards with actions the Actors must take. Between acts, audience members turn in cards along with a monetary donation for the local homeless resource center (The Road Home.) The actors must obey the cards that have the highest donations attached to them.

Story: A televangelist is holding his summer "Faith-A-Thon" pageant... but things go quickly awry when his show gets hijacked by a mob who has different plans for the "Faith-A-Thon" and the Televangelist and his cast of pageant players must bend to their demands... or else.

GENRE: Theatre, Original Script, Comedy, Avant-Garde/Experimental, Audience Interaction, Charity Fundraiser

CONTENT RATING: FFF - Full-Fledged Fringe (R)

ARTIST BIO: From Playwright and director RJ Walker

RJ has narrated over 30 audiobooks, designed escape rooms and written murder mystery adventures for Mystery Escape Room and Sundance TV. He has written 4 produced plays for Salt Lake Community College, Wasatch Theatre Company, and The Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival. He is an Irene Ryan nominated actor and an ACTF finalist in playwriting. He is also a runner up for the ACTF devised theatre competition and has served as the lead devisor for 3 devised theatre projects. RJ is currently on the creative team for Wasatch Theatre Company, and serves on the creative team and serves as a narrative designer for Dreamscapes in the Gateway.

ARTIST DEMOGRAPHICS: LGBTQ+ Artists, Student Artists, Women Artists & Artists of Marginalized Genders, BIPOC

WEBSITE: https://rjwalkerpoet.com/

OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: http://facebook.com/rjwalkerspokenword, Twitter: @dollacompliment, http://instagram.com/dollarcompliments