Experience your city in a whole new way!
With each project, you’ll receive Seven chapters in the mail, each with instructions to travel somewhere in the city. (Go whenever you want, share with whoever you want.) When you arrive, explore the maps, letters, photos, and other objects in your box to experience a chapter in on-going story. Explore the neighborhood, get restaurant recommendations, discover DC history and live inside a story like no other.
“Rorschach Theatre excites the mind and ignites curiosity with unique storylines incorporating the fascinatingly rich history of DC.”
— DC Metro Theatre Arts (about last year’s Psychogeographies Project, Chemical Exile)
Rorschach’s current Psychogeographies Project,
Seven Chapters releasing through July 2023
+ one ticket to Angel Number Nine
(Our current 2022/2023 project)
Beyond the bureaucracy and marble columns, there’s a steady beat that drives the Nation’s Capital. Dive into more than a century of DC music and find out just what it means to be immortal in Rorschach’s latest groundbreaking event.
FROM THE ARCHIVE!
(Our 2021/2022 project)
Seven Chapters
+ video link to the final performance
A scientist boards a plane from Amsterdam to Washington. Returning to a world she thought she knew, she discovers nothing, and nowhere, is what she expects. A story about families, forgotten histories, and the uncharted frontiers of the mind.
FROM THE ARCHIVE!
(Our 2020/2021 project)
Seven Chapters
+ video link to the final performance
A lost letter reveals a hidden alliance. A familiar fragrance revives ancient memories. A forbidden love sends ripples 100 years into the future. If you stand in just the right spot and listen closely, you can hear the past… and maybe even the future.
A GREAT PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION includes:
● Wandering as you explore your physical world in a leisurely way,
● Subverting your everyday relationship with the city through a fresh perspective,
● Discovering the present through the prism of the past, maybe a dash of the occult and…
● An excellent T-Shirt!
Hundreds of DC-Area audiences joined us for Rorschach’s first two Psychogeographies projects, described by the The Washington Post: “[a] season-long immersive experience, DISTANCE FREQUENCIES sends audiences on monthly excursions to lesser-traveled Washington-area sites, where landscapes — together with the contents of curated mailed packages — help conjure a mysterious overarching story that is partly set in those locations.”
DC Metro Theatre Arts said about the project, “Rorschach Theatre’s current production is…an adventure of the mind and, if you wish, the body… The innovative form of art incorporates literature, music, mystery, romance, and DC’s highlights and history, all steeped in a hope for a better world… Rorschach Theatre has hit the jackpot with this innovative form of art, incorporating literature, music, mystery, romance, and DC’s highlights and history, all steeped in a hope for a better world.”
Safety Considerations: Participants are required to follow local and private business mask requirements where applicable. Rorschach strongly recommends all participants be vaccinated against covid 19.