MILKMAN ZERO

A darkly funny work of psychological horror built inside a text adventure, the oldest kind of computer game. No graphics, just a world conjured with text and a blinking cursor waiting for the next command: “open door”, “talk to woman”, “deliver milk”. Matt Romein plays the game live from a keyboard as the story spells itself out on a video wall behind him, every character landing with the clack of a typewriter, while a soundscape builds a milk-mad town out of nothing but words and sound. Like a ghost story around a campfire, the horror takes shape in the audience’s imagination, one delivery at a time.

Part solo performance, part live playthrough: the world of MILKMAN ZERO exists only as long as the player keeps typing. Deliver the milk. Ignore everything else.