EK Theater is what happens when you mix video games and Shakespeare

Eddie Kim has found a way to combine World of Warcraft and Shakespeare with his theater group, EK Theater. He’s a teacher with a background in traditional theater, and for the last 10 years, he’s been putting on performances featuring what he calls “video game puppetry” — live shows where classical theater pieces are enacted in a game world.

In 2007, Kim received an invite to put together a performance for the Tiny Theater Festival, an annual event at the 70-seater Brick Theater in New York. The piece had to be 10 minutes long and take place on a stage that was essentially a 6-foot cube.