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== Story notes ==
== Story notes ==
* To research for writing ''Time Fracture'', Dingsdale watched over 400 episodes of ''Doctor Who''.<ref name=":10" />
* To research for writing ''Time Fracture'', Dingsdale watched over 400 episodes of ''Doctor Who''.<ref name=":10" />
* [[John Barrowman]] was set to reprise his role of Captain [[Jack Harkness]] in a pre-recorded video segment, but his footage was removed from the show shortly before its release after Barrowman fell out of grace with the [[BBC]] when past actions of his were brought to light by [[Noel Clarke]].{{source}}
* [[John Barrowman]] was set to reprise his role of Captain [[Jack Harkness]] in a pre-recorded video segment, but his footage was removed from the show shortly before its release.<ref>https://www.immersivedoctorwho.com/faq </ref>
* Some of the set dressing was original screen-used props, whilst other items were replicas.<ref name=":10" />
* Some of the set dressing was original screen-used props, whilst other items were replicas.<ref name=":10" />
* During the interval, a [[Silurian]] and an unidentified blue woman sing several songs to entertain the audience members.
* During the interval, a [[Silurian]] and an unidentified blue woman sing several songs to entertain the audience members.

Revision as of 08:46, 31 May 2021

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Doctor Who: Time Fracture was a stage show produced by Immersive Theatre and licensed by BBC Studios, with James Goss acting as lore consultant and script editor. The staged production - billed as an "immersive experience" - was written by Daniel Dingsdale.

It featured video and audio clips, special effects, screen-used props and creatures, and music cues from the series[1]. After being delayed from its initial opening date in 2020 due to COVID-19[1], it finally opened on 26 May 2021 at Davies Mews in London. The show had a length of two hours and fifteen minutes.[2]

All of the main TV Doctors were featured in some capacity, represented in a variety of ways.[3]

Synopsis

1940 – at the height of the Blitz. A weapon of unknown origin destroys a small corner of Mayfair, and simultaneously opens a rift in space and time. For decades, UNIT have fought undetected to protect the people of Earth from the dangers it poses. Weakened and beaten back as the fracture’s multiplied out of control, they're close to defeat.

Plot

All fourteen paths to be added.

Cast

Due to the nature of the production, the audience members themselves are active participants, but for obvious reasons of practicality, cannot be covered by the wiki. Not all characters are necessarily featured in a single individual's given experience of the story.

Pre-recorded video

Pre-recorded audio

Archive audio

Live actors

Crew

Creative Team

  • Tom Maller - Director[7]
  • Daniel Dingsdale - Writer[7]
  • Rebecca Brower - Production Designer[7]
  • Hannah Postlethwaite - Associate Set Designer[source needed]
  • Terry Cook - Lighting Designer (for Woodroffe Bassett Design)[7]
  • Matt Ladkin - Associate Lighting Designer[14]
  • Adam Povey - Lighting PM/Crew Chief[14]
  • Luke Swaffield - Sound designer (for Autograph)[7]
  • Novak - Video & Projection Design[7]
  • Jon Bulleid - Illusion Design & Director[7]
  • Carly Blackburn - Movement Director[7]
  • Danny Nolan - Music Producer & Composer[7]
  • Barnaby Race - Music Content Creator & Additional Songs[7]
  • James Goss - Lore Consultant & Script Editor[7]
  • Stuart Boother - Fight Director[7]
  • Louise Duggan, Zands Duggan - Period Music Composers[7]
  • Ryan O'Conner - Art Director[7][13] [Misspelt as Ryan O'Connor on the website][15]
  • James Sutton[16] - Prop Maker[17]
  • Mark Jones - Costume Supervisor[7]
  • Fiona Kingwill - Assistant Director[7]
  • Brodie Turner - Safeguarding Consultant[7]

Music from Murray Gold is also featured within the show.[18]

Production Team

  • Zoe Snow - Production Manager (for Gary Beestone Events)[7]
  • Matt North - Company Manager[7]
  • Daniel Gammon - Stage Manager[7]
  • Lorna Adamson - Deputy Stage Manager[7]
  • Danielle Whitfield - Assistant Stage Manager[7]
  • Sarah Coates - Assistant Stage Manager (Book Cover)[7]
  • Peter Carrington - Assistant Stage Manager[7]
  • Debs Machin - Assistant Stage Manager[7]
  • Sophie Cairns - Assistant Stage Manager[7]
  • Amy Warren - Assistant Stage Manager[7]
  • Virna Sologaistoa - Covid Compliance Officer[7]
  • Jack Berry - Head of Lighting[7]
  • Harry Johnson - Head of Sound[7]
  • Edward Aspinall - Head of Video[7]
  • Liam Sayer - Technical Swing LX/Video[7]
  • Gabriel Maillard - Technical Swing Sound/Video[7]
  • Marta Bagnoli - Wigs, Hair and Make Up Manager[7]
  • Jen Clarke - Wardrobe Manager[7]
  • Emily Noble - Wardrobe Assistant[7]
  • Ester Mangas - Wardrobe Assistant[7]
  • Fiona Kingwill - Resident Director[7]
  • Emily Bestow - Art Standby[7]
  • Becky Craven - Operations Manager[7]
  • Iain Fraser-Barker - Front of House Manager[7]
  • Rich Penrose - Bar Manager[7]

Featured creatures/monsters

The number of creatures featured in a single individual's given experience of the story will vary based on their own choices, as well as their own decisions to explore outwith the plot.

Featured/visited locales

The number of locales featured in a single individual's given experience of the story will vary based on their own choices, as well as their own decisions to explore outwith the plot.

There are 17 different worlds[23]:

Story notes

  • To research for writing Time Fracture, Dingsdale watched over 400 episodes of Doctor Who.[1]
  • John Barrowman was set to reprise his role of Captain Jack Harkness in a pre-recorded video segment, but his footage was removed from the show shortly before its release.[29]
  • Some of the set dressing was original screen-used props, whilst other items were replicas.[1]
  • During the interval, a Silurian and an unidentified blue woman sing several songs to entertain the audience members.

Easter eggs

  • "Bad Wolf" and "Torchwood" are both referenced by graffiti in one of the areas.[30] "Mr Smith I Need You" is also featured in the same corridor, in reference to The Sarah Jane Adventures.[28]
  • William Shakespeare is a featured character that audience members may encounter.[31]
  • Posters for Vitex, Kerb!am and the "Vote Saxon" campaign are featured in areas.[18]
  • Queen Elizabeth wears the Coronet of Rassilon at one point in the production.
  • Both a Torchwood Institute agent and a Time Agent are featured within paths of the story.
  • Props featured in the Black Archive area include; Clockwork Droid masks, Handles, the Tunguska Scroll, Amy Pond's sonic probe, a Dalek "tommy gun" (from Evolution of the Daleks), a Betamax recorder (from The Idiot's Lantern) and the Osgood boxes.
  • Props featured in Da Vinci's study include; the Chinese Puzzle Box (from Mona Lisa's Revenge).
  • Props featured in the Torchwood Hub include; Owen Harper's labcoat and Object 1.
  • Props featured in the Borlls' Imporium include; a chair from the Eleventh Doctor's first TARDIS console room, parts of the Lazarus Machine, Cassandra's frame.
  • Props featured in the 1940s London area include; a miniature version of the gates from 76 Totter's Lane and a clock from Sardicktown.
  • Malcolm Taylor's office is also featured prior to entering the story.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 BBC Breakfast, 28 May 2021
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-time-fracture-preview/
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=the-doctors-join-immersive-west-end-show-time-fracture#_
  4. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/DWtimefracture/posts/498501564924541
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://twitter.com/dwtimefracture/status/1393144499715592199
  6. ↑ https://twitter.com/im_atardis_man/status/1396881670888906755
  7. ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.16 7.17 7.18 7.19 7.20 7.21 7.22 7.23 7.24 7.25 7.26 7.27 7.28 7.29 7.30 7.31 7.32 7.33 7.34 7.35 7.36 7.37 7.38 7.39 7.40 7.41 7.42 7.43 7.44 7.45 7.46 7.47 7.48 7.49 7.50 7.51 7.52 7.53 7.54 7.55 7.56 7.57 7.58 7.59 7.60 7.61 7.62 7.63 7.64 7.65 7.66 7.67 7.68 7.69 7.70 7.71 7.72 7.73 7.74 7.75 7.76 7.77 7.78 7.79 7.80 7.81 7.82 https://web.archive.org/web/20210528002142/https://www.immersivedoctorwho.com/cast-creative
  8. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210528013142/https://www.spotlight.com/0456-8976-2876
  9. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210528012535/https://www.spotlight.com/7977-5618-3046
  10. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210528011941/http://www.spotlight.com/2610-1201-9749
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 https://www.facebook.com/115103476597687/videos/272337747791034
  12. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210528014615/https://www.spotlight.com/1017-1273-9257
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Time Fracture show companion guide
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 https://www.facebook.com/WoodroffeBassett/posts/158884226242597
  15. ↑ https://twitter.com/thatpropsguy
  16. ↑ https://twitter.com/thatpropsguy/status/1399073218862985219
  17. ↑ https://twitter.com/thatpropsguy/status/1399084206467203076
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WhSaiioZsY
  19. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/DWtimefracture/photos/bc.AbpoqzRCtTAGyGwzxu2x1493hRTexDQXzN9kZ0z_22N8J3jxSdIK2rhgGUdQVDuaqP_qBzYYoFfj0uSYsrt8Y1Fgye99vhe-rwububFqKO0EMX-IYlKph7lMkj_vu42aPe5ShlnOYYDNEdatkNwctvImTYUvS6qnQMLL1jA-i21_hg/490644445710253/?opaqueCursor=Abp-sJoOXUQl2WhOr64tesxRYSsaryeAzOKDfWMJyBGdUWzPO9BLIsn6JhZPb2_GfW9mgAROLkfY-tDk9jO_QwuJib4P8gJU7G-8t7o3BxZv2IKPkyR0Ui9gfj_tkeQsl0sSGE9WBOEySV9ETXqNeajutlJr37BDsSBZLnL1v6dj1vzMeh0ULjcXMeXyeKANdsA_RjdvgwOV1HxhQP39n21mW4SPUWBvfYnjoQP7WfJZMIYakOz08izIx9gVHEcYdAz_XvDikv-1d2YMe-8MyUnt597evNP9AqETAvzPnHx5lRQlZpYAJQ_vAIM3pwUq3yz_YwvJAaS2eMLQNSw-_xzMfSgVMJBHUWWl-bK92p8RKmMR9JCI1H0kHxXoiqPqx-RQF-Gw7NRDoN8FAv_Gew2zB33k0CHuMV4t6Br_yWBFpftoctk5SvpU1YBc2GVJVxbZXkiOEDw6SFm2hIYW7eDQBhh9dCaWmah_tq_J6tFrBMbENVlWbtd4BlHLbGJ9zn0
  20. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/115103476597687/videos/474726280345247
  21. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/115103476597687/videos/2760075767581585
  22. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/115103476597687/videos/759422837937068
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 https://www.facebook.com/DoctorWho/posts/5543830182297630
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-time-fracture-secret-villain-location-newsupdate/
  25. ↑ https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/first-look-doctor-who-time-fracture-newsupdate/
  26. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210528000703/https://twitter.com/GerardGroves/status/1398067619937259521
  27. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=158883462909340&set=pcb.158884226242597
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 https://www.instagram.com/p/CPV2EtdlgJj/
  29. ↑ https://www.immersivedoctorwho.com/faq
  30. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/Rebecca-Brower-Production-Stage-Design-197923063568420/photos/pcb.4496215567072460/4496195500407800/
  31. ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09gxgj5

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