Miller: So Night Vale is a pretty weird place. It just feels like we did the bare minimum of what anyone should do. It's good that that has been helpful to people, the podcast having it visible and having that diversity, but it certainly doesn't feel like we did anything that should be special. Spending years in downtown New York theater, I have so many people I'm close to who are not white, straight people and so it just wouldn't be honest to any of my experience of the world to write that. But if you actually look at the world, that's not what the world looks like, and I think as writers we owe that to people to write about the world the way that it is. You see straight, white people on a screen or you read about them in a book, so you put that into your own work and you don't really think through what you're doing. You're just regurgitating what you've seen in media, which is one kind of person. Because if you only write about one kind of person, you're lying about the world. And it always feels very weird because it feels like that is just the bare minimum any writer should do. Was this intentional?įink: People are very happy about that, obviously, and they want to thank us for that. WTNV is well known for writing diverse characters and casting diverse actors, something mainstream media often struggles with. Miller: Something I want to talk about, too, is diversity. It plays with audience energy in a way that you can't with a podcast. Everything we're writing for this show is designed to be for a live audience. Cecil Baldwin, who is our narrator, he is a trained stage actor and so he really can hold his stage. And so these live shows are really written as theater. Characters, stuff gets referenced from years back and things gradually grow and they're also written for a listening audience in mind and these live shows… everyone involved in the show has a background in theater. So a lot of times, there's storylines that go from week to week. You know, the podcast is 20-minute serial storytelling. Miller: Speaking of the bi-weekly podcast, how’s the live show different?įink: Well, the live shows are written to be live shows. So I think if people have listened to Night Vale and enjoyed it, they'll definitely enjoy this, but I also think that if people just like theater or comedy or weird storytelling, there's a lot here for them. People loved him and came up with this new show that we're really excited about. We took all of that in and put it together with this character. It's, in a lot of ways, a response to what's been going on in the world today. It's a completely self-contained story about this strange, desert town and, in a larger sense, about what we owe each other as people. So it's really kind of a treat for fans in that way and it's really playing with a character that people have loved for a long time.īut it's also designed for people that have never heard of the show at all. It brings the fan favorite character, the “Glow Cloud,” into the theater and allows people to get a sense of what it would be like to interact with that character. this spring and we're bringing it now to more of the U.S. Joseph Fink: We have toured it through the U.S. Tickets start at $27.50 and can be bought online at .īelow is a longer version of the interview with Welcome to Night Vale creator and writer Joseph Fink, edited for clarity:ĭaylina Miller: So lets talk about Welcome to Night’ Vales’ newest live show, “All Hail.” What can you tell me about it? Tampa is the second Florida stop on the international tour. “It's got that weird Night Vale vibe to it. She said there’s always at least one person in the audience dressed as the Glow Cloud, with an intricate lighting rig that stands out in a crowd.īashwiner said the show has the same kind of quirkiness fans have come to expect from the podcast and novels. “So it kind of lets us play with our comedy chops a little bit more. "While the story is emotionally intense, it is a lot more funny,” Bashwiner said. She said it’s much less somber than last year's "Ghost Stories" show. Meg Bashwiner, tour manager and the voice of Deb, said this year’s show focuses on a fan favorite character called the "Glow Cloud," an ancient God and the Night Vale School Board's president.
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