{"id":11298,"date":"2018-06-18T15:35:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T22:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/Becomeimmersed.com\/?p=11298"},"modified":"2019-11-25T13:58:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:58:58","slug":"hollywood-fringe-one-last-thing-before-you-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becomeimmersed.com\/hollywood-fringe-one-last-thing-before-you-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Fringe 2018 – Spend a Short Stint in the Afterlife with \u201cOne Last Thing Before You Go\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations, you are dead.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s probably not the way you expect a theatre show to begin, but this is the Hollywood Fringe Festival<\/a>, after all–and this is Aaron Vanek and Kirsten Hageleit’s One Last Thing Before You Go, <\/em>so it\u2019s not particularly surprising. Vanek and Hageleit’s brief but intriguing twenty-odd minute solo immersive piece is a fantastic opening to what deserves to be a longer show. It\u2019s the beginning of a strong foundation to a piece that hopefully will be expanded and remounted in the coming months; Vanek expertly uses his extensive live action role playing background to craft a multi-option experience that immersive theatre veterans will be pleased to experience, and newcomers to the genre will likely find very accessible.<\/p>\n

The set-up is simple: you\u2019re dead, and before you cross over, well, there\u2019s just this one last thing. What that thing is <\/em>depends on you\u2014the dead one in question. Indeed, the small cast (featuring intense, strong performances from Shoshanna Green, Pip Lilly, and Brenda Gutierrez) is fully prepared for almost any action, or inaction, the participant may take. Vanek also uses some extremely clever light and sound tricks that, even in their simplicity, serve to transform the space into a somewhat unnerving plane between the living and the dead.<\/p>\n

The only drawback of the performance is how truncated it feels, it\u2019s almost as if you are yanked off an exciting precipice just before you decide to jump. This drawback, however, only reinforces the strength of One Last Thing Before You Go\u2019s <\/em>concept; it\u2019s an ideal starting point for a show that, come Halloween season, could contend with established \u201chaunt\u201d type experiences with its fresh approach to some ghostly subjects. Here\u2019s hoping this successful run inspires much more immersive content from Vanek going forward.<\/p>\n

One Last Thing Before You Go<\/em> is currently enjoying a sold-out<\/a> run at the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival<\/a>. For more information on future remounts and other projects from Aaron Vanek, you can sign up for the mailing list on his website<\/a>, and follow One Last Thing Before You Go<\/em> on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aaron Vanek\u2019s One Last Thing Before You Go is a welcome addition to 2018\u2019s Hollywood Fringe Festival. It is a solo experience where participants take on the role of a recently departed experience. What happens next is up to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":11325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2170,80],"tags":[10884,4238,9636,10744,99,92,130,8904,3586,10745],"yst_prominent_words":[10887,22606,10886,4399,10888,188,1856,5219,2165,22607,3007,1084,2157,246,5898,4525,7824,1472,5831,10885],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/becomeimmersed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/img_2608.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbrPML-2We","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becomeimmersed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becomeimmersed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becomeimmersed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomeimmersed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomeimmersed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/becomeimmersed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomeimmersed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becomeimmersed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomeimmersed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomeimmersed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11298"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomeimmersed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}