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Dallas Theater Center gets punchy while promoting The Elaborate Entrance of ChadDeity
Powerbomb is a knockout way to promote the upcoming Elaborate Entrance of ChadDeity, which runs October 19-November 11 at the Wyly.
Have you seen this? Or, more accurately, have you played this? To help drum up excitement for its next show, Dallas Theater Center has developed — in conjunction with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company — an online video game called Powerbomb. In it you’re cast as Mace, a WWE wrestler whose sole job is to make superstar Chad Deity look good by repeatedly being on the wrong end of his beatdowns.
I can definitely get behind a video game that encourages me to play badly. I can appreciate the fun details, like a frenzied crowd and curvaceous ring girl clad in a tight red dress. I can even achieve the minimum score of 200 that’s needed to score a sweet ticket discount at the end.
What I can’t get is the details. You’ll have to look up things like the play’s synopsis and themes — it’s an examination of politics, race and class warfare — on DTC’s website to fully understand why you’re letting The Deity make you look like an inept weakling in the ring. But because you can only access the video game from the company’s website, in the end, that probably makes sense.
Besides, a punch-’em-out video game shouldn’t ask too much of you, right? Ultimately, Powerbomb is a knockout way to promote DTC’s next big show.
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity runs October 19-November 11 at the Wyly Theatre.
