Amazon's Stand out The series was a great blessing for Fallout 76thereby attracting new players and new attention to the game in its current state. This is a much-needed boost after the rocky first impression the game left, although the show also inspired something else – a core part of the game's recent output Richard III by Wasteland Theater Company. Game Rant spoke with Wasteland Theater Acting Artistic Director Jonathan Thomas, known in-game as Bramadew, about their adaptation of the Shakespeare classic Fallout 76-themed game they call it Richard the Ghoul.
The dark war never changes, not even in Fallout
For the uninitiated, Wasteland Theater Company was founded at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a time that made the company's founders think of the age of Shakespeare. In the Bard's time, the bubonic plague had shuttered theaters, just as the pandemic had shuttered theaters. Added to this was the vaguely apocalyptic feel of the early days of the pandemic, whose images evoked the idea of a post-social wasteland.
Although other virtual theaters like it Final Fantasy 14Although production of “A Stage Reborn” predated the pandemic, the field today is largely new and fresh for groundbreaking companies like Wasteland Theater. So put on plays like Coriolanus, Romeo and Julietand even Alice in Wonderland adapted for the Stand out This venue is still of great historical importance for the performing arts.
The latest in this legacy is Richard IIIor as it goes in the Wasteland Theater production, Richard the Ghoul. The title may be a little reminiscent of Walton Goggins' character in the Amazon series, and that's no coincidence. Thomas says that the character of The Ghoul was inspirational for the adaptation.
“Richard’s disfigurement. We changed that to a ghoul because that's a very common disease encountered in the wasteland. There are wild and non-feral ghouls, and the non-feral have found their way to reintegrate into the society that grows and rebuilds itself.
Taking Richard, who had a history of scoliosis and was thought at the time to be less than human, and turning him into a ghoul was just so easy, and it just fit in with the universe.”
That's not the only allusion Stand outis the Amazon series in the piece. Since Richard marries his cousin in the play, the company used one of Lucy's lines at the start of the show: “Having sex with your cousin is not a sustainable way to keep the vault alive.” Although beyond these two points and The decision to foreground Shady Sands, Thomas said that the show had less influence on the play than other parts of the series. Thomas has said that audiences responded very well to their adaptation:
“We have a lot of support from the community itself; from other live streamers, people who do podcasts or fanfiction or whatever, and they’re all super supportive.”
They tune in to the live streams and even try to get on the server and watch the game in person if they can. We have felt the love of the community and the people who know us and are very grateful for it.”
How adaptations merge with Fallout and the performing arts
“There are three plays the company is considering,” Thomas explained, and what they do next could depend on which script is written first. Two of the three options come close to their successes with Shakespeare hamlet And Twelfth Nightbut the Wasteland Theater deviates from the Bard from time to time.
After all, they've done works by Lewis Carroll and Charles Dickens, and the third one they're looking at is Aristotle's Frogs (presumably to get a playful title Wheel toads). Frogs would draw from Amazon Stand out Series, as the corporations of the pre-war world make great analogies for the Greek gods:
“You know, on the show, where in the boardroom all the different CEOs – Vault-Tec and REPCONN and RobCo and so on – are talking about using atomic bombs to have a reason to test the vaults. The general population is always in on the whims of these larger entities
Stand out
; the different corporations.In our opinion, this can be implemented very well
Frogs
because it's humanity that realizes, “Oh, the gods are actually in control and there's really nothing we can do.” We're just at their mercy.''
Whether it is so Frogs, Twelfth Nightor hamletThe Wasteland Theater Company is always accepting new players for its next show. Anyone interested in joining Wasteland Theater can contact Still, Thomas says they always bring at least one new person per show and look forward to meeting that new person for their next play.
