![]() ![]() All play is fragile, and serious consequence always threatens the boundaries of Huizinga’s ‘magic circle’ of play this means that play statuses must be consistently negotiated and updated by those participating, a concept I refer to as ‘the invitation to play’. ![]() Rope and The Walking Dead both work from the prophetic prototype developed in the Oedipus myth and use reflexive engagement with their own storytelling practices to ask open questions of stigma, sexuality, ethnicity and problems in the ongoing negotiation of play as both a coping strategy for social and legal marginalisation, and a safe space for interrogating our precognitive moral intuitions and biases. It traces the lineage from Oedipus Rex and early tragic theatre to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1948 film Rope, followed by The Walking Dead Telltale Games series, relating how each text presents protagonists who are marked as criminal from the opening of the narrative. This article investigates three storytelling arts as spaces of narrative play: theatre, film and narrative-based gaming. ![]()
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