#24 Possession, Regret, and The Cutting Room Floor with Patrick Mueller of Control Group Productions

This is a season of the surreal.
On some certain, inexplicable terms we find ourselves drawn to the ethereal, the supernatural, the unknown, and the misunderstood. At the intersection of all these things lies The Cutting Room Floor.
The Cutting Room Floor is not a traditional haunt, no. This show lends a seasonally appropriate levity and exaggeration to the topics of regret and possession. There are ghosts, there are aliens, there is the Aurora Fox theater, but most importantly, there is Patrick Mueller, the artistic director of Control Group Productions with us right here, right now, to talk about this spooky season experience in Denver.

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Joseph Campbell: Art and religion (interview)Denver Center for the Performing ArtsThird Rail ProjectsSweet and luckyTension experiences

Show Notes:

• Fictional or fantasy world [2:58]
• What is the Cutting Room Floor? [5:57]
• What is real world scary [8:00]
• The key concept is possession [9:21]
• So, What about regret? [11:36]
• Deadly serious [14:17]
• Unexpected audience interaction [18:01]
• A misunderstanding of immersion [22:28]
• Prepare your non-immersive savvy friends [27:29]
• Patricks’ experiences with immersion [28:45]
• Working with Third Rail Projects [31:06]
• Colorado Style immersive [32:41]
• Make it immersive [39:14]
• Playing with physics [40:29]
• Control Group’s Creative workflow [43:48]
• Considering tactics and wind tunnels [44:21]
• Changing from Sweet and lucky [48:43]
• Being handed the keys to the jeep of immersion [53:08]
• Immersive bus tour and other upcoming work [54:35]