The Theatre is an urban legend among many game communities not unlike the mystifying tale of the game Polybius. Supposedly it [The Theatre] was originally intended as an educational game played from a First-Person perspective. The game was said to have been worked on sometime in either the middle of 1993 or late 1994 following the runaway success of the Hell-themed 1993 hit, DOOM. The game never saw the light of day due to the bankruptcy and subsequent closure of it's parent company, Salida Software.

Because of this: the surviving gameplay is said to be nothing of repute. Just handing an unseen ticket to the usher waiting at the entrance to the dark and unfinished hallway and being sent back to the beginning of the lobby as if the game had simply reset.

Some have noted that the content anemic nature of the game creates a rather unsettling atmosphere. Combined with that are reports that sometimes the usher will be missing from his usual spot when being sent back to the lobby and further reports that some have stumbled upon a disfigured, utterly horrific version of the usher lurking in the dark hallway...

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Version 6

Version 6

Full Version 2 comments

The first fully 1:1 version of the mod that includes graphics for the posters, the usher, the clock, and the swirly head man. One known issue with this...

Version 5

Version 5

Full Version

The fifth main revision and the first fully completed version of the mod that features the ambient clock ticking sound, proper silent teleporting. No...

Version 4

Version 4

Full Version

A direct update to v3, a little more detail was added and some oversights and bugs addressed.

Version 3

Version 3

Full Version

A minor milestone update to v2. The map has a little more detail added, but is still more or less the same. Centered text is now colored, and custom sounds...

Version 2

Version 2

Full Version

Pretty much the same as it's predecessor, with the most distinct difference being that the basic map is entirely present here. You can go from the first...

Alpha v01

Alpha v01

Demo

The very first version of the mod that was made all the way back in 2013. I quickly threw this together after watching many videos on The Theatre, mainly...

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kartulionu
kartulionu - - 26 comments

Why is it exclusively for Zandronum?

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HellBlade64 Creator
HellBlade64 - - 17 comments

Because there are some ACS commands used by the main map that only work in Zandronum.

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