The Raven transforms immersive theater | Microsoft In Culture

I am a storyteller. (They called it lying when I was young, but I grew into more socially acceptable means of telling stories.) However, I spent far too many years gathering stories to tell and now, in the twilight of my years, find that storytelling has become institutionalized, likely beyond my access. It is now a young person's endeavor. Whereas older storytellers wrote novels in their declining years (yes, young authors wrote them too but few succeeded beyond pop culture), novels are out of fashion. People don't have time for them. There are far too many distractions for readers. There is a plethora of media that feed stories into the brain with little or no effort on the part of the audience. The problem with these, especially film and its ugly stepchild, television, the costs of producing a story have placed the creative art in the hands of financiers and their money counters. Profit now dictates art and the result is mundane and trite. Now comes a new medium attempting to immerse the audience. Will it succeed as radio drama once did? Honestly, I doubt it...