If you haven’t read a book in years, try out this multimedia narrative instead. The book just got upgraded (and it blew my mind!).
I'm including a link to an interview with the creator here, but don't read it until after you've checked it out the narrative, unless you want the whole thing spoiled!
Forum Theatre is a mode of performance that empowers the audience to change the outcome of on-stage action and have their say on subjects explored within the show. This makes every performance a completely unique experience.
In Cathy Come Home, UK theatre company Cardboard Citizens brought Forum Theatre to the livestream experience. To encourage audience participation online, the company set up instant feedback via twitter, facilitating and collating comments to incorporate into the performance and the Q&A sessions.
Interactive cinema follows the conventions of traditional filmmaking, with the addition of “Choose Your Own Adventure” aspirations. The genre puts non-linear storytelling in the hands of the spectator, who can direct the course of the film through choices at specific intervals.
Mr. Sardonicus follows Baron Sardonicus, who threatens to harm his wife if prominent medical doctor Robert Cargrave fails to treat the baron’s bizarre facial disfigurement. Watch the trailer to hear how the director left the ending up to the audience through the "Punishment Poll".
Although the director claims that he shot a “mercy” ending, that alternative was never chosen in theaters and some suspect that it never existed. Still, the fact that movie-goers at least possessed the illusion of choice was a revolutionary experience.
