spite & malice

by Chelsea Sutton

tickets on sale march 1 - april 4

duration of experience: march 22 - april 30

It’s your draw in the longest-running card game in the universe. Good luck.
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more about the project

Spite & Malice is a fantastical branching narrative that utilizes playing cards, found objects, audio media, and mail-based interaction to lead you through a tangled correspondence between the King, the Queen, and Jack, who are racing to win the longest-running card game in the universe. A rogue ex-player is breaking the rules as she searches the stars for her disappeared grandmother. They all need something from you. You’re part of the game now. Good luck.

details of participation

When to Join:

Sign up by March 21 for a March 22 postmark.

Sign up by March 28 for a March 29 postmark.

Sign up by April 4 for an April 5 postmark.

After that, well, looks like you’ve had some bad luck, my friend.


What You’ll Need:

The experience requires a mailing address (residential, business, or PO Box), an email address, a phone (don’t worry, we won’t call you), and internet access. 


Things To Do:

After signing up, please read and respond to your ticket confirmation email for details. In it is a questionnaire that will securely share your mailing address with The Rulemakers. Fill it out. Don’t be scared. All good stories have questions to be answered, otherwise they can’t move forward. 


What Will Happen:

You will receive an envelope in the mail from The Rulemakers. Its contents will direct you to absorb a world, complete tasks, send messages, visit portions of the story online, make a few decisions (none right, none wrong) and call a number or two. After you mail an SASE back into the universe, The Rulemakers will send you one last correspondence, postmarked no later than April 30.

lead artist
/creator 

Chelsea Sutton writes weird fiction and impossible plays and films. she was a 2016 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, and her fiction has appeared in bourbon penn, cosmonaut avenue, pithead chapel, craft literary, and blood orange review, among others. her plays have been finalists for the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, and the Woodward/Newman Drama and International UNIMA Young Writer awards. she co-wrote with lisa dring the acclaimed immersive production Kaidan Project: Walls Grow Thin and her play Wood Boy Dog Fish received its second production in the inaugural season at the Garry Marshall Theatre in 2018 - both written and produced with Rogue Artists Ensemble. MFA UC Riverside.

The Cast

Lisa Sanaye Dring

Anil Margsahayam 

Liana Mesaikou 

Kate Weinberg



Visual Artists

Mauro Flores 

Matt G. Hill

Lori Meeker

Kate Weinberg


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