Performance Rodeo (presented by One Yellow Rabbit and Theatre Calgary). The Virtual Stage made its US and international touring debut with No Exit at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco in 2011. Also in 2011, The Virtual Stage produced the world premiere of Andy Thompson's multi-media stage adaptation of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, co-produced by Langara College's Studio 58 and directed by Ron Jenkins at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre. Later that year, The Virtual Stage entered the Film Racing Grand Prix, an international 100-hour filmmaking competition. Its entry in the race, a superhero spoof directed by Andy Thompson entitled Repair Man, was the top-ranking Canadian film of the competition, finishing third overall. In 2012, the company produced Andy Thompson's site-specific theatrical scavenger hunt The Zombie Syndrome in which audience members with smartphones used GPS to navigate from scene to scene on the streets of Vancouver. The Vancouver Police Department was involved in the process to ensure no violent scenes with zombies appeared in public. The interactive show was acclaimed for its originality and compared to the Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks of the 1980s and 1990s. See also Theatre of Canada List of Canadian plays Vancouver's Arts and Culture Avante Garde References External links The Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards official website No Exit at Calgary's High Performance Rodeo No Exit at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater Theatre companies in British Columbia Theatre in Vancouver