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Image credit:The Wasteland Theatre Company/Bethesda Game Studios
Image credit:The Wasteland Theatre Company/Bethesda Game Studios
“Just imagine a post-apocalyptic ghoulified Laurence Olivier – that’s what we’re going for. "
The exact date of opening night is yet to be announced but it won’t be the first show we’ve seen from this band ofStation 11-style thespians of the apocalypse. They’ve been performing for a few years, previously showing adaptations ofMacbeth,Romeo and Juliet, andA Christmas Carolamong others. There are also plans to show Hamlet later this year, with “gratuitous robot sex scenes and plenty of blood”, according tothe playbill.
Image credit:The Wasteland Theatre Company/ShaneBaconStrip
Rehearsals for Richard the Ghoul are ongoing, which is always impressive in a landscape crawling with mirelurks, mole rats and mega sloths (oh my). Not to mention a slew of new and returning players piling into the game off the back of the TV show’s influence. But the director says there have been mercifully few problems, at least with the human observers.
“The Fallout 76 community is notoriously nice,” he told us. “Since we performed our first show in 2021, we have had very few other players disrupt our productions. Most players who randomly come across our performances tend to sit down and watch in awe, walking away thinking ‘wait, did I just watch a Shakespeare play in Fallout?’
“One of our rehearsals was nuked though,” he added. “It is the Wasteland after all.”
“We hope new players stick around and enjoy the game as much as we do,” says Northern Harvest. “And who knows, maybe they are interested in joining up as an actor!”
Occupational hazards include being nuked, of course.
