DETECTIVE Q Takes Over Teatro Vista's Instagram With 10 Free Micro-Episodes – Broadway World

Detective Q has been taking over @teatrovista’s Instagram feed all week to tell a tale…about The Sharpest Line.Teatro Vista’s new moving graphic novel, written and created by ensemble members Marvin Quijada and Gabriel Ruiz, is dropping 10 micro-episodes over five days this week, right now, exclusively on @teatrovista’s Instagram feed.Film noir meets mime in this fast-action, funny, genre-defying digital episodic about the misadventures of an urban, animated private eye, new from Teatro Vista, Chicago’s leading Latine theater company.Each chapter, like “Episode 2: How Not to Do a Stakeout” and “Episode 3: How to Get Hit by a Car,” runs under a minute, combining comic adventure animation, live action, video, urban locales, and because it’s from Teatro Vista, an all-Latine cast.Already, Detective Q is gaining fans, attracting more than 2,500 views in the show’s first week alone. And clearly, Detective Q, the character, is keeping close track as his story unfolds on social media, peppering the comments section of every episode with enigmatic wisecracks, and maybe even a few clues.Quijada, aka “Silent Marvin,” mimes the titular character, Q, while Ruiz voices his flinty detective slang. The two friends, longtime members of Teatro Vista, dreamed up the character Detective Q and used…
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