60 Minute Summer Camp
Ella Raymont & Arlo Howard
We’ve crammed all the best bits of summer camp into 60 minutes. Drive into the cozy nostalgia of Camp Sycamore for games, crafts, and a wilderness walk. This interactive experience is welcoming to campers of all ages but is really designed for grownups who could use a little summer camp in their life.
Come join us at Camp Sycamore to make new friends, reconnect to the world around us, and spread the joy of camp. It’s camp time!
An Interview
Deadweight Theatre Company
Seeking a flexible, detail-oriented team player. Entry level position. 3-5 years experience preferred. Must thrive under pressure.
This is a work in progress (for real this time).
Accept the Cookies
Accept The Cookies Team
ACCEPT THE COOKIES will present an electrifying and interactive piece about our rights and freedoms in the digital future. In the age of surveillance capitalism, we ask: how much of your mind are you willing to give away to algorithms and big tech?
Our exhibition (in development) tells a cyberpunk-inspired, immersive sci-fi story, sprinkled with glitch, digital fairytale, and online tropes like blue ‘verified’ badges, persistent cookie requests, and opt-out boxes that are impossible to find.
For Voidspace Festival, we are sharing an early prototype of our work in a live format, as a 60 minute interactive showpiece.
Ambient Lit: an introduction
Tom Abba
In this workshop Tom will be talking all things Ambient Lit – writing that responds to the reader’s physical environment & surroundings.
Tom’s work on the Ambient Literature Project – a collaboration between UWE Bristol, Bath Spa University, and the University of Birmingham – brought us experiences such as A Hollow Body, These Pages Fall Like Ash and On Bitter Ground.
Join him today to get an insight into this exciting work, and an opportunity to make a small Ambient Lit piece of your own.
Arsenic and Lies
Karolina Soltys
It is 31 December 1919 and the party at Weatherby Manor is in full swing. The guests exchange furtive whispers of intrigue, blackmail and forbidden love. At midnight, a glass of poisoned champagne shatters, dropped from a dying hand.
The family has to find – or frame – the killer before the police start looking too closely into their secrets.
Arsenic & Lies is a live action roleplaying game (larp), inspired by Downton Abbey and Agatha Christie novels. It’s designed to be the perfect introduction to larping, no previous roleplaying experience necessary!
Find Your Superpower
Loy
FIND YOUR SUPERPOWER is a subversive workshop set in a fake boardroom that gets transformed into a creative oasis.
Live art meets group therapy, this offering intends to flip the script on corporate wellbeing activities.
So, you’re a high-flying exec and business means business. You’ve signed up for this workshop to maximise your productivity and 10x your financial returns. Oh yeah and maybe some afterthought about the environment. The thing is, something doesn’t feel right today…
Faust
Seth Kriebel & Zoe Boras
Centuries ago, Dr. Faustus summoned the demon Mephistopheles. Now, we have conjured A.I., nuclear power, and next-day delivery… and nothing comes without a cost. Each show is unique, combining elements of Marlowe, Goethe and European folklore to ask how the old tales can help us navigate our complicated times.
‘Delivers both laughter and poetry. ★★★★’ — The Stage on Kriebel & Bouras’ Beowulf.
Hamlet (An Experience)
Emily Carding
After breaking new ground with award-winning Richard III (A One Person Show), which was a hit at last year’s Voidspace Live, Emily Carding brings us a new interpretation of Hamlet and you, the audience, are the players arriving at Elsinore.
Hamlet needs your help to take on the roles of his friends and family and resolve the great questions of life. Journey through the play together and become immersed in the story like never before. Hamlet has the questions. Do you have the answers?
HESTIA DELTA ONE
Simon Clark & Ray Hodson
Welcome aboard the Space Station Hestia Delta One. You will all be playing roles on board the space station. Are you a grizzled veteran engineer, training up their replacement? Are you the successful Captain, the only one the aliens would allow? Are you the long suffering First Officer, who puts up with far too much from the demanding Ambassador?
You will decide!
A short LARP for fans of classic sci fi.
If You Think I Should Make Better Life Choices, Turn to Page 42
Hakan Akgül
An interactive monologue play in the style of choose your own adventure books and TTRPGS, the story follows a man after a night out, sneaking away from a hook-up, who realises he’s lost his one emotional keepsake—and any sense of direction. Drunk and disoriented, he tries to retrace his steps but spirals into panic, unable—or unwilling—to decide his next move. Now, the audience must take control, guiding him through the night’s chaos. Can they steer him home safely, or will they get him into trouble?
Navigate puzzles to help him retrace his steps, roleplay encounters with strangers on the street or in the club, and manage his dwindling emotional and physical resources – ultimately shape his final reckoning, in this experience balancing control with the weight of responsibility.
Jury Duty
AWARD-WINNING, CRIME-SOLVING GAMES FORM A JURY.
INTERROGATE THE DEFENDANT. CAST YOUR VERDICT.
Jury games are bringing all three of their experiences to Void Festival, check the times to see which one you prefer! Each one allows you to uncover evidence, question a live performer and cast your verdict at the end of the experience.
Jury Games are award-winning interactive experiences that dive into thrilling criminal mysteries. A blend of crime solving and immersive theatre. Look through the evidence of a case, interrogate the defendant, cast your verdict.
The Legend
Juice Cui & Jaiden Xiu
“The Legend” is an interactive shadow puppetry experience that transcends time and media. Blending sound art, drama, traditional shadow puppetry, and digital interaction, it breathes new life into ancient myths, inviting the audience to co-create a living legend guided by sound and animated shadows.
In this project, each note represents the soul of a mythological character—more than just static story elements, they serve as catalysts for transformation. When the audience triggers different sound keys, the artist manipulates the shadow puppets behind the screen, bringing the story to life through a mesmerizing dance of light and shadow. The myth unfolds as an audible, visible, and ever-evolving narrative.
Here, the audience is no longer a passive spectator but an active participant and co-creator. Their choices shape the direction of the plot, with each key press acting as a call to the myth, seamlessly intertwining sound, image, and narrative to craft a singular, immersive theatrical experience.
Meet at the Tavern
Rebel Rehbinder & Kol Ford
There is a wizard in a tower who is terrorising the town folk, that much is known, but when all of the heroes from across the land assemble in the Tavern before heading out to defeat the evil, they have issues they need to iron out ahead of time.
This is going to get emotional, so grab a tankard and get stuck in as the dysfunctional characters assemble for an evening of drama, emotion, regret and reconciliation in the larp that ends before the adventure begins.
Soon it will be time to… MEET AT THE TAVERN
Nimble Things
Hazel Dixon
Nimble Things is a freeform larp for 6-12 players. Players discover that they are changelings – creatures that were swapped with human children at a young age. They need to make the decision whether to leave for Arcadia – the realm of the fae – or remain in this world. It is a game about belonging, found family and what keeps us anchored.
ONLY EXIT
Camden Barrett and Angela Rauf
ONLY EXIT is a performance practice / installation which looks at the collision of found space and public space in performance, and the utilization of wearable apparatus in performance. Anarchy, anarchitecture, and pleasure in transgressive protest are all themes in this mischief-making participatory piece.
Interact with signage available in the found space, as well as visual and audio ephemera / apparitions, and challenge learned spatial behaviour as you commune and collaborate with each other and the space… or make a mess and/or simply watch the joyful chaos unfold.
Save the Raccoon
Yudi Wu
Save the Raccoon is a live game show aiming to find the best “trash artist” to save the raccoons, as the species becomes homeless and endangered in a zero-waste future with no bins. To earn the title of best trash artist, the “raccoons” (you the audience…) will have to go undercover and beat a system ultimately rigged against them.
Inspired by Wu’s experiences navigating the UK funding & awarding system as a rural-based first-gen immigrant artist, the game design has been adapted from the application process and requirements for the Global Talent Visa. Reflecting on their journey, the show not only presents the ridiculousness of navigating a system that is unfair for the “raccoons”, but also the privilege that “elite raccoons” have over the others under this system, along with their exploitation of the “loser raccoons”.
The Sixth Suspect
Liz Cable
The Sixth Suspect is a Victorian-set murder-mystery escape room, and a highly interactive workshop where audience will first solve a murder, and then create their own narrative-based mini escape game, by introducing their own suspect…
The Spy of the Year Awards
Tom Black / Arlo Howard / Chloe Mashiter / Hannah Raymond-Cox
The Spy of the Year Awards is the most important night in any spy’s calendar, but this year’s celebrations are threatened when a shady organisation begins leaking top secret information. Even worse: one of the agents at your table is the leak. Together, can you get past personal vendettas, messy histories and emotional revelations to uncover the leak before the end of the night?
Spy of the Year is an original Jubensha, blending role-play with puzzle solving and hidden traitor games. Whether you’re a James Bond, an Ethan Hunt or a George Smiley, get ready to uncover the truth…
Uncle Barry’s Birthday Party
Mia Foster and Ariana Aragon
What makes a fun party?
People (you’re invited), gossip (someone has to spill the beans), booze (obviously), dancing (optional), flirting (encouraged), cake (yes), a good playlist (please) … & UNCLE BARRY!
Light touch may occur; boundaries respected. Dress freely, party fully.
UNCLE BARRY is a London-based theatre company specialising in interactive and site specific performance. Their first piece, Uncle Barry’s Birthday Party, is created by Ariana Aragon and Mia Foster. While students at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama studying on the Advanced Theatre Practice MA programme, Ariana and Mia connected over their shared desire to co-collaborate with performers, be bold, and make theatre that’s rooted in bringing people together.
Where We Meet
Unwired Dance Theatre
They say you never truly know a person until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes.
The arrogant city boy, the bubbly party girl, the awkward one in the corner. You think you know them. But stop and listen – make the connection – and you’ll realise there’s more to them than meets the eye.
Where We Meet is a playful piece of interactive dance theatre, where contemporary dance (of the sort favoured by companies like Punchdrunk, Sleepwalk and dreamthinkspeak) meets cutting edge spatial sound technology (a la Darkfield) to open a window into the thoughts of three unique characters.
See behind the mask, and join them as they embark on individual and uplifting journeys of self-discovery.
Where We Meet is a playful piece of interactive dance theatre, where tech and performance unite to put you in control.
Choose to hear a little of everybody’s hidden story, or forge a deeper connection by staying with one. Either way you will be given a unique and unrepeatable experience.
Whether you want to get close, or prefer to watch the story unfold in front of you from your seat, this performance welcomes you to see beyond appearances and experience connection at its most uplifting.
Woven Paths
Mahshid Alavi and Ozzy Moysey
Woven Paths is a meditation on a special route, exploring the deep emotional connections we have to routes and places that leave a lasting mark on us. The journey begins with the tall trees of Valiasr Street in Tehran. Through storytelling, live music, and audience interaction, the performance invites you to reflect on your own meaningful paths and memories, creating a shared experience that is both personal and collective.
Experience throughout the day
Cafe 2105
Maria Jose Jiminez Silva
Café 2105 is an interactive site responsive autobiographical headphone performance that explores the inevitability of displacement and emigration in Puerto Rico. In this performance you are invited to grab a coffee and let yourself be and feel at home -wherever that actually is.
The Fairytale Library
Jenifer Toksvig
The gathering of a fairytale moment is a gentle experience of one-on-one theatre in which you will find yourself in the world of a favourite story. Through informal conversation, you can choose your own way into that world and wander inside it. The Librarian will both guide and follow you as you roam through the forest, climb the mountain, or dance in the palace of your fairytale moment. These moments are captured in handmade books and kept in tiny suitcases. Previous participant: “A rich, magical, revealing experience that is still with me years later.”
The Stolen Child
Challenge your rivals to win back the Stolen Child, for the glory of your faction. A pervasive game to play throughout the festival (when the Court is open…)