perambulatory

Brittany Blum, a former actor, and Tessa Whitehead, a fiction writer, conceived “Eschaton” as a real-world immersive experience, back when theater could be experienced IRL, not just via URL — a mystery story unfurling in the atmospheric, perambulatory style of the popular “Sleep No More” or “Then She Fell.”

Both are also perambulatory narratives: In the opening tale, “Ghosts and Empties,” rather than make a scene at home, she has taken to ambling it off after dinner in her Northern Florida neighborhood.

So enamored did I become with these perambulatory performances that we even joined a Cadies & Witchery Tour conducted by an actor extravagantly overdressed as the ghost of Adam Lyal, who was hanged for robbery about two centuries ago.

It’s a sprawling document—you have to get through 173 nonbinding perambulatory paragraphs before you even get to the regulation itself.

“I always wish I were one of those perambulatory writers like Wallace Stevens.”