Taking the world’s best storytelling to a whole new level, Strange Bird Immersive creates an experience that allows families to explore an interactive story together. Their characters and stories are entirely live, allowing you to see, hear and interact with real-life actors, who play out the story’s scenes.
Madame Daphne’s parlor
Located in the quaint downtown Houston arts district, Strange Bird Immersive is a creative and immersive theater company that creates experiences at the intersection of escape rooms and immersive theatre. One of their signature experiences is The Man from Beyond, which combines a masterful and fun-to-play immersive theater experience with the requisite escape room puzzles.
Despite the success of their first venture into immersive theater, the company decided to move on to a larger, more permanent space. A new location will open in the fall. A move that will reopen the doors on Madame Daphne’s famous Houdini seance.
The best part about The Man from Beyond is the interactive component, which combines escape room clues with a fun and witty story about Harry Houdini. As the story unfolds, players must work together to save the Ghost of Houdini from purgatory.
The Man From Beyond
During the Prohibition era, Harry Houdini was one of the most famous escapologists in the world. He’d made several short films of escape routines, and his first feature film was called The Grim Game. He’d also appeared in a serial called The Master Mystery. In 1918, he started his own company, the Houdini Picture Corporation.
In 1922, he created a science fiction film called The Man From Beyond, which is still a bit of an unknown. It’s not a bad film, but it doesn’t get much right. It’s a little muddled and lacking in interesting content. It’s only really worth seeing for Houdini scholars.
The plot centers around a man who has been frozen in ice for a century, and then comes back to life. He goes on a quest to find his long lost love. He is aided by a young woman named Felice, who is a doppelganger of his onetime fiancée. The doppelganger’s blackmail into marriage is the reason for his return.
The company’s experience with COVID
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The experience is designed so that an entire family can do it together
Located in Houston, Texas, Strange Bird Immersive is a company that is dedicated to creating interactive and immersive experiences at the intersection of theatre, escape rooms, and immersive technology. Their first experience, The Man from Beyond: Houdini Seance Escape Room, is an immersive theater experience that has been praised by critics and audiences alike.
Using technology, music, and storytelling, the company is able to create experiences that are both fun and intense. The experience is designed so that a family can enjoy the experience together. They have a living room, bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen for the entire family to interact with. They have a variety of activities and story lines in each room, and even offer beverages that are free of alcohol and sugar.
The show is performed by a cast of real people who tell their own stories. The cast includes J. Cameron, a regular member of the cast, who has written most of the computer code for the experience. He also built the interactive furniture, image recognition, and dialogue in the script.
The company’s storytellers are actors
Designed and built in Houston, Strange Bird Immersive produces unique immersive experiences in the form of immersive theatre, escape rooms, and virtual reality (VR) adventures. The company’s most well-known endeavor is its “The Man from Beyond: Houdini Seance Escape Room” — an interactive theatrical experience combining Houdini’s legend with a theatrical seance to solve a mystery.
Rather than rely on a pre-determined story line, the immersive experience is based on real life events, allowing the audience to connect with the actors and learn what’s on their minds. The company also has a number of other innovative projects in the works. In the meantime, the company is taking some time to explore new immersive techniques that will help the company’s growing roster of performers bring their vision to life.