Tuesday, January 27, 2026
I Do review – immersive hotel drama as wonderful as a real wedding day
Theatre | The Guardian: When isn’t there big family drama in the buildup to a wedding? The nerves, the tantrums – sometimes even charges of “inappropriate” first dances. Isn’t it all part and parcel of the apparently perfect day?
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I really love site specific work and have learned about so many cool site specific companies and also techniques for doing site specific work since coming to CMU drama. It seems to me that in this production, there is a sequential way to go through each of the rooms, which I like. It means that the story unfolds as if you were watching a staged production or TV show. But, before I realized this was a sequential piece, I had thought that this piece had different storylines unfolding in different rooms at the same time, and I think that idea is epic. I would love to do a piece where by going into one room, you get information that maybe conflicts with another room’s stpry, or you are missing context. It becomes a little detective game that I think would be really fun and make audience members have to interact with each other in interesting ways. I would love to see something like that done.
I think immersive theater pieces are so cool, and this one in particular seems really well done. FIrst of all by conduction it in a hotel, the actual place where all this pre-wedding drama would be happening really brings the audience into the story. I also love how they’re telling multiple love stories at once, and that they are all intertwwined with each other. I think its so incredibly cool that the audience views the rooms in different orders, and that the story can exist simultaneously. It changes the perspective of each different scene when you have diffrent contexts from the other scenes, and I’d be curious to see the differences in the way audience members who viewed the piece in different orders interpreted the story. The piece seems to contain a good amount of humor and familiarity as well, and I love that it seems to be relatable to those who have either gotten married or been to many weddings. Personally I haven’t had a ton of wedding experience but I can see how authentic this might seem.
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