A strand of playful performance and collective world building from the best interactive storytellers in the business.
In-person show tickets include entry to the Strange Play: Showcase on 18 or 19 April.
The Map & the Echo
Seth Kriebel
- 12, 14 and 15 April 2026, 8pm GMT
- Online
The Map and the Echo is a anew edition in Seth Kriebel’s acclaimed series of interactive Exploration Games (including The Unbuilt Room and A House Repeated).
Inspired by early text-adventure computer games, each performance is unique, shaped by your choices.
Using simple instructions like ‘Go North’ or ‘Pick up the lamp’, work with your fellow explorers to overcome obstacles, navigating – and creating – an imagined world of secret maps and second chances.
“Engaging… The Map and the Echo is a lovely piece of short-form performance” — No Proscenium
Visit sethkriebel.com for more information.
All Falls Down
Chronic Insanity
Part of Strange Play: Showcase
- 18 April 2026, 11.30am
All Falls Down invites you into a thrilling experience where your choices shape the fate of a group of friends stranded after a plane crash.
As they navigate the wreckage and the mysterious wilderness around them, you will guide their actions and decisions in a quest for survival.
The audience plays a crucial role, directing the characters as they seek help while facing unseen threats lurking in the shadows of the forest.
Your input will determine not just the direction of the story but also who you encounter, what challenges arise, and whether you will make it out alive.
Age rec: 14+
Bear-Faced Liars
David Middleton
Part of Strange Play: Showcase
- 18-19 April 2026
Teddy bears are alive. They always have been. Humans just don’t know it.
For lonely little Alex, Someday, Smush, and Farringdon are everything. That is, until Alex makes a new friend.
Then comes the “accident”. Then comes the ambulance. And then comes the tribunal.
Beneath the cheerful songs and gingham tablecloths, the teddy bears’ picnic has always hidden something darker.
One of them broke the Bear Code. One of them chose to act.
The Bear Code, it turns out, has some very creative interpretations…
Call of Cthulu: Carver’s Greed
Hakan Akgul
Part of Strange Play: Showcase
- 18-19 April
The classic table top roleplaying game of mystery, creeping madness and unknown horrors, directed by master GM Hakan Akgul.
Come and play – if you dare…
The Nautical Trench
Hazel Dixon
Part of Strange Play: Showcase
- 18-19 April 2026
One week ago, you were alerted to a submarine that had come under distress somewhere in the North Atlantic ocean.
Systems on the submarine had failed and the nearest research station at Greenland had reported an abnormality detected near a tectonic fault line the vessel had been travelling near.
Experts from all over the world were scrambled and you have been asked to be part of a new submarine crew to investigate.
As your submarine approaches the last known location, you wonder what danger awaits you in the deep ocean.
Spy of the Year Awards
Arlo Howard, Chloe Mashiter, Hannah Raymond-Cox, and Tom Black
Hosted by Joe Strickland
Part of Strange Play: Showcase
- 18 April 2026
Welcome to the Spy of the Year awards ceremony!
Your group of S.E.C.R.E.T. agents (and handler) are here to have a nice time and hopefully win some awards.
With all the world’s greatest deceivers, tricksters and double-crossers in one place, surely nothing can go wrong. At the very least you can trust everyone at this table… right? Right?!