Seven Steps to Jericho - an Immersive Theatre Project initiative

Seven Steps to Jericho presents a preliminary concept for an innovative, collaborative cultural initiative integrating traditional live theatre, interactive digital storytelling, literary exploration, and destination-based cultural tourism. The proposed initiative envisions interconnected virtual environments in which audiences become active participants, independently exploring fictional narratives, discovering interactive literary artifacts, encountering characters, and developing their own interpretations and associations between stories. Central to the concept is the principle that discovery itself constitutes a meaningful experience. Rather than requiring participants to solve prescribed puzzles or follow predetermined narrative sequences, the environment encourages curiosity, individual interpretation, and self-directed exploration. The initiative also proposes participant-created virtual investigation boards through which audiences may privately document, selectively share, or publicly contribute their discoveries and interpretations, creating an evolving collective record of audience engagement. A complementary digital–physical model would connect these virtual experiences with live theatrical performances, offering opportunities for audience development, creative collaboration, and cultural tourism. Presented as an illustrated conceptual storyboard, this preliminary proposal explores the potential to leverage existing interactive technologies rather than develop an entirely new digital platform. It is intended to encourage discussion and potential collaboration among theatrical organizations, writers, performers, digital developers, and cultural partners.