Psychogeographies Projects

Analogue augmented-reality project transforming the landscape of Washington,
DC into magical immersive adventures
Created with Rorschach Theatre

Every city has its secrets.
What will you find?

PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES is Rorschach Theatre’s visionary experience that takes participants to unexpected locations around their city while a season-long fictional narrative plays out over layers of history and magic realism. Guests receive a box in the mail monthly that includes a new Chapter in the story, each box containing hand-crafted objects – letters, drawings, souvenirs, photos, or even snacks – and a map to a location in their city. The season ends with a live in-person event that culminates the story.

Jonelle has worked as a lead playwright and devisor on every season of PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES. She co-wrote the full-length live shows DISTANCE FREQUENCIES: TRANSMISSION & CHEMICAL EXILE: SYNTHESIS, and voices curious journalist Kathryn Malo for ELDRITCH INVESTIGATIONS. For the project, Jonelle collaborates with multidisciplinary artists to produce written narrative elements; maps; tangible and consumable objects; and audio recordings.

Featured in The Washington Post, Metro Weekly, Washingtonian (BEST THEATRE PIVOT, 2021), Washington City Paper, DC Theatre Arts, and more.

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An unopened letter from 1935 launches a young artist on a decades-long quest, backward and forward through time. Immersed in back alley love stories, great floods, mysterious voices and a transom of unknown powers, the artist is left with a single question: Where do we go from here?
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A scientist boards a plane from Amsterdam to Washington. Returning to a world she thought she knew, she discovers nothing, and nowhere, is what she expects. CHEMICAL EXILE takes participants to eight locations across the DC area as a complex story unfolds about families, forgotten histories, and the uncharted frontiers of the mind.
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Beyond the bureaucracy and marble columns, there’s a steady beat that drives the Nation’s Capital. Dive into more than a century of DC music and find out just what it means to be immortal in Rorschach’s latest groundbreaking event.
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Cults and cryptids collide when a curious Washingtonian investigates local unexplained phenomena. Explore the lure of the unknown and its entanglement with DC history in this multi-chapter adventure across the city.
Two teenagers fall through time after a shared moment in the woods. Trying to find their way home, they land at different Washington DC protests throughout history – each time encountering the city they thought they knew through the eyes of those who sought to change it.