In Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern, the audience gets to control the action.
Reviewed by MICHAEL IDATOIn an era when watching people play tabletop games has become a virtual entertainment genre of its own, you could be forgiven for walking intoa little uncertain of what you’re going to get. It’s not every show where the plot twists are determined on the fly, and you get to take your drink to your seat.
In truth, the title is a little bit of misdirection. This isn’t just watching people play the Dungeons & Dragons game, though there is dice-rolling, nail-biting thrills and gasps galore. It’s more akin to an improv comedy show in which the cast play D&D character archetypes, the outcomes are decided by dice roll , and the cast share the stage with a “dungeon master” and a “rules lawyer” Zoe Harlen.
Atlas Adams, Eleanor Stankiewicz and Trubie-Dylan Smith in Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern.The show’s three “player” leads – Atlas Adams, Eleanor Stankiewicz and Trubie-Dylan Smith – are essentially recast each night, though they hew to three of the game’s key archetypes: Adams is a warrior, Stankiewicz a spell-caster and Smith a trickster.
In accordance with the game’s rules, each character possesses certain skills and some access to magic, though much of the narrative is pushed forward using the roll of a 20-sided dice, but also choices made by the audience using a phone app. It’s the audience intervention that turnsRules lawyer Zoe Harlen and dungeon master William Kasper with Trubie-Dylan Smith, Eleanor Stankiewicz and Atlas Adams in Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern.
As with most improv shows, the absurd touches make the experience most fun. Kasper’s dungeon master has to sub as a raft of other characters but finishes the night as a sinister potato who looks uncomfortably like a fantasy version of Little Edie from, and there is a thrilling and smoky finale where you half expect Helen Mirren to come wafting out of the shadows in her
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