What’s your origin story? At Departing Dystopia we help our cast and audiences develop alternate versions of themselves that they can pretend to be in our shared alternate reality. A character’s origin story plays a crucial role in determining how you decide to interact and immerse yourself in our storyline.

Each character’s backstory is a tapestry of personal struggles, triumphs, and transformations (both fictional and real). These origin tales reveal how individuals were shaped by the traumas of our actual reality and the fictional reality in which we blame it all on “The Amazian Regime”.

By delving into characters’ pasts, both our cast and our audience are able to potentially work through some pretty real pain they’ve been experiencing. The safety of the fantasy character and costume we create together seems to make it much easier to face ourselves, removing the walls and masks we wear in real life that often keep us feeling trapped and alone, suffering in silence in our own individual realities.

By sharing our often deeply personal stories in a fantasy environment, know one knows what actually true or how you spun the origin story of the alternate you to protect the real you from revealing more than you feel comfortable with. I know that sounds abstract, once you start to experience the magic of Departing Dystopia, it will all begin to make sense.

We are essentially highlighting the common threads of resilience and longing for unity make us feel most connected to others. It helps us relate to each other. To collectively grow and support each other. To hone our ability to empathize vs judge and categorize. All this shows that despite their differences, all basically want the same things. To be happy and feel loved. Even if you might not currently believe these things are possible, we hope you give us the chance to help you rediscover the sense of childlike wonder and optimism that’s often murdered as we “adult”.