Written by Stacy D. Flood
Directed by Jenny Crooks

This new drama previewed at Ghost Lights’ 2015 Battle of the Bard’s where it  quickly became a crowd favorite due to it’s take on feminism and gaming culture. It swept the audience vote and won a feature length spot in our highly anticipated 2016 season!

From Kings to Controllers uses the basis of Shakespeare’s “The Rape of Lucrece” to introduce a larger discussion on the challenges faced by women in video gaming, technology, and the arts. As one woman struggles to build a game that empowers, she is met with trials throughout each aspect of her endeavor – from within the gaming world and her own navigation of it. What emerges is a fun, raucous, inventive, yet insightful play sure to add thought beyond the plastic buttons and flashing pixels with which we are all so familiar.

This play will take you down a wild spiral as it explores one woman’s struggle to create something new in a world dangerously resistant to change. In a time when Gamergate, Sony hacks, and cyber terrorists rule our society, how much will one woman risk? From Kings to Controllers dives headfirst into the fear we all face when we stand alone against a faceless monster.

Featuring the talents of Christina Alexander, Sarah Beeson, Elizabeth Brammer, Geb Brown, Lily Cohen, Aimee Decker, Asa Fager, Britanny Hammer, Christine Lange, Corinne Magin, Maddy Noonan, Beth Pollack, Matt Sherrill, Laura Steel, Ben Symons and Bjorn Whitney.