Life/Time by Liar Liar Theater

Our site-specific audio project is a walking tour of one person’s life set against the backdrop of Golden Gate Park. The narrator begins giving the tour as a 5-year-old in 1950. The narrator ages 5-10 years at each stop on the tour, her voice growing older as the tour goes on. The tour ends in the present day at the end of her life. As she guides the audience to each stop, the narrator shares stories from her life in San Francisco, growing up on the military base in the Presidio, sneaking out to Jefferson Airplane concerts, protesting the Vietnam War, navigating gender barriers by presenting as both male and female, dating men and women, making bad and good decisions, and weathering the crises, twists and joys that make up a complete life. Guiding the audience to the top of Huntington Falls on Strawberry Hill and back down again, this piece will walk the audience through a lifetime in 20-30 mins.

Liar Liar Theater Collective (Akaina Ghosh, Jacob Ritts, and Madison Wetzell) has been producing original, site-specific, immersive pieces since 2017. We began our work together with an original translation/adaptation of Euripides’ The Bacchae in Tilden Park, where audiences were able to choose whether to participate in Bacchic rituals in the woods or witness the crumbling of Thebes while getting to know Dionysus. We are two-time recipients of 3Girls Theatre’s Innovators Series Award, which we used to develop and produce Two Coins for the Ferryman: An Immersive Quest, an ambitious project with six independent and interweaving storylines. We seek to create narratives that investigate methodologies of performance, particularly immersive and interactive experiences that utilize unconventional methods of storytelling. Since 2020, we have been delving into the world of immersive, interactive audio plays.

Life/Time by Liar Liar Theater

Our site-specific audio project is a walking tour of one person’s life set against the backdrop of Golden Gate Park. The narrator begins giving the tour as a 5-year-old in 1950. The narrator ages 5-10 years at each stop on the tour, her voice growing older as the tour goes on. The tour ends in the present day at the end of her life. As she guides the audience to each stop, the narrator shares stories from her life in San Francisco, growing up on the military base in the Presidio, sneaking out to Jefferson Airplane concerts, protesting the Vietnam War, navigating gender barriers by presenting as both male and female, dating men and women, making bad and good decisions, and weathering the crises, twists and joys that make up a complete life. Guiding the audience to the top of Huntington Falls on Strawberry Hill and back down again, this piece will walk the audience through a lifetime in 20-30 mins.

Liar Liar Theater Collective (Akaina Ghosh, Jacob Ritts, and Madison Wetzell) has been producing original, site-specific, immersive pieces since 2017. We began our work together with an original translation/adaptation of Euripides’ The Bacchae in Tilden Park, where audiences were able to choose whether to participate in Bacchic rituals in the woods or witness the crumbling of Thebes while getting to know Dionysus. We are two-time recipients of 3Girls Theatre’s Innovators Series Award, which we used to develop and produce Two Coins for the Ferryman: An Immersive Quest, an ambitious project with six independent and interweaving storylines. We seek to create narratives that investigate methodologies of performance, particularly immersive and interactive experiences that utilize unconventional methods of storytelling. Since 2020, we have been delving into the world of immersive, interactive audio plays.