№ 01The Smoked Alibi
Mezcal · charcoal salt · rosemary smoke
Served at the bar by the man with the broken watch. Don't ask what time it is.
Volume IVNow Playing
Drink the
story.
A traveling speakeasy where the staff are characters, the cocktales are chapters, and the room disappears at the end of the season.
The door opens at dusk
An Introduction
Speakeasies have been pretending for a decade. Pretty rooms, forgettable nights. We are doing the opposite. The room is only the stage. The evening is the show. And you — yes, you, in the second booth — are in it.
— From the Director's Note
The Current Chapter
Vol. IV
Spring 1925
Midnight
in Paris
The Scene
A back-room café off the Boulevard Montparnasse. The Lost Generation is loud tonight. Hemingway is at the bar. Zelda has not stopped talking. Cole is at the piano and you, somehow, know the words.
- Duration
- 90 minutes, no intermission
- Cast
- Six characters, one pianist
- Seating
- Curated · 28 guests per scene
- Address
- Released 72 hours prior
- Run
- Through 14 June
The Menu, Vol. IV
Each cocktale sets the scene
Six signature drinks, three light bites, all written for this scene and this scene alone. Here are the first three.
№ 01
№ 02Zelda's Confession
Gin · elderflower · crushed violet
A petal floats on top. She'll tell you it means something. It does.
№ 03The Hemingway Sentence
Old Tom · grapefruit cordial · sea salt
Short. Bracing. True. You'll order a second one before you mean to.
…and three more revealed only at the table.
House Rules
How an evening unfolds
- I
The Door
A redacted address arrives by post three days out. A password. An unmarked door. The cast is already in the room. The scene began before you got there.
- II
The Cast
Your server is Zelda. Your bartender is Ernest. The pianist will know your name by your second drink. They are scripted only in skeleton; the rest is yours.
- III
The Cocktales
Six drinks, named for the characters and the moments. Order them in any order — or let the bartender choose for you, which is the better game.
- IV
The Curtain
Ninety minutes. The lights come up. The room is dismantled by morning. Next quarter it will reappear, transformed, somewhere else entirely.
The Archive
Chapters past
Each chapter runs once. There are no encores.
Now PlayingVol. IV
Spring · 1925
Midnight in Paris
ClosedVol. III
Winter · 1932
The 11:42 to Istanbul
ClosedVol. II
Autumn · 1962
The Last Tiki Lounge
№ 0042 / 200
Membership
The Story Pass
For the ones who want to follow the story wherever it goes. A leather passport, stamped at every chapter you attend. Priority booking. Addresses one week early. An accumulating record of the rooms you've been inside.
- ✦First access to every new chapter
- ✦Locations revealed seven days early
- ✦Two reserved seats per season, anywhere
- ✦Invitations to private cellar tastings
- ✦Your character name, kept across chapters
From the Stage Door
Questions, answered
Never. The cast plays the scene whether you join in or simply watch from a velvet booth with a drink in your hand. Most guests start as observers and finish as co-conspirators. That is the trick of it.
Dress for the chapter, or dress for yourself. We'll send a costume note with your confirmation — a hat, a color, a pinned flower. None of it is required. All of it is encouraged.
Three days before your seating, you'll receive a redacted address and a password. Bring both. Tell no one. The door is unmarked and the cast is already waiting.
Yes. Private chapters for parties of 18–40 can be commissioned in any era we've staged, or built fresh around your occasion. Write us through the membership desk.
The Stage Whisper
Be told where
we are next.
Reservations open three weeks before the curtain. Members go first. The list goes second. Then it's gone.
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