Mat Bevel Company is currently seeking a new Tucson location and investors for a visionary new project called The 360 Theater. Using Ned Schaper’s 30-year body of work, the circular theater will become the set for both virtual and live performances. Interested parties, please contact Paula Schaper, 520-604-6273 or pschaper@matbevelcompany.org.

The 360 Theater will be both a live and a virtual theater configured as a circular production set where the many characters from the magical world of Beveldom will be captured via video technologies. During live performances, small audiences will watch the action from the center of the theater.

This theater set will be made from found-object sculptures in the Museum Of Kinetic Art, forming a cityscape around the circular base, and a sky scape of butterflies and other flying contraptions in the dome area above. There will be three major kinetic art stations that correlate with each day of “The Three Days of Beveldom” narrative: the Bevel Cafe, the Energy Plant and the Condo Launch Pad.  

A 360-degree virtual reality camera will hang in the center of the set, capturing a full sphere of kinetic sculpture movement, sound and light, all approximately the same distance from the camera. 

This set establishes the initial view of Beveldom, a real “city of junk” located somewhere in the universe. 

The 360 Theater is non-linear theater, designed to allow people to experience the subjects contained in the narrative’s 440 poems in any order and to see action in every direction. 

The entire set will be 40 feet in diameter and about 20 feet high.