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.
Continuum
Et al. Performance
Step into our office…
Thank you for taking the time to apply. Your application has been successful. Welcome to ‘Continuum’! A 5-hour durational performance celebrating the labour of pre-production, by questioning the line between work and pleasure, in order to really put on a show.
Theatre etiquette does not apply here. This is a lavender-and-wellness-focused workplace. Let the signs and buttons be your guide!
We wish you luck on your journey to relish, guilt-free, as the time passes by and just enjoy the present moment. Be playful, be mindful – your performance review is due! Get ready to SERVE.
The Crow Club
Dean Rodgers
The Crow Club is a Soho nightclub. It is frequented by the highest and lowest of London society, and famous for one thing: murder.
An immersive murder mystery game inspired by the Chinese Jubensha format, and bringing in elements of immersive theatre and escape games, The Crow Club is a Soho noir, which sees players locked in a nightclub with a murder to solve… and one of them is the killer. This is a game of social deduction and deception. Players must uncover the secrets hidden in the Club – and in their fellow players – to solve a murder.
Devil in the Details
Hazel Dixon and Usva Inei
A family comes together to perform a powerful ritual; in order to keep living their extravagant lifestyle, they must pledge themselves to a dark and mysterious power. Using an ancient first edition of the Picture of Dorian Grey, they’ve found a way to store hardships into a portrait. However, with any boon comes dangerous consequences.
Audience members will switch between playing members of the family and playing the devils that emerge from their portraits. As family members, participants will interact with one another, while as devils, participants will engage in art-making. The progression of the art will reflect the progression of the characters. Who – or what – will you become?
DIG IN
Caro Murphy and Arlo Howard
DIG IN is a live action role playing game set around a family dinner table. Family tensions run high and everyone has a bone to pick with another member of the family. Those little mundane tensions that simmer under the surface, why is the middle sibling always late? Why does dad keep going on about the fishing trip?
The family consists of three adult children, a father, his new partner, a mother and her sibling. As the family sits around the table, grievances arise, people take sides, and everyone waits to see who might get an apology and who is going to Dig In.
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…
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?
Jury Games
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.
MIA
Beth Atkinson: Cross-Stitch Theatre
A single room.
No set.
No costumes.
No actors.
A single envelope lies on the floor.
When stripped back to its roots, what do you need for a mystery to be solved?
MIA invites you to solve a mystery within a mystery. Who killed David Fischer? What does the colour red have anything to do with it? And where on earth are all of the suspects?
Mind Control Disco
But Why? Theatre
Mind Control Disco is an immersive, participatory audio adventure where guests experience the thrill of a party guided by O.M.N.I., an AI designed to create the ultimate night out. The show combines synchronized instructions, epic tunes, and a playful exploration of AI control versus free will, offering a unique blend of entertainment and social interaction.
Funny, playful, and profound, Mind Control Disco is a dance party of epic proportions. Will you follow O.M.N.I.’s control or rebel against it…?
No Wet Socks
Ella Raymont and Arlo Howard
Become a happy camper and take part in activities and crafts, guided by your camp counsellor!
No Wet Socks is all the best bits of summer camp – with no wet socks; an interactive experience that transports us back to the joys of camp, condensing two weeks of activities into just one hour. This unique journey is designed to remind adults of the importance of slowing down, sparking their imagination, and reconnecting with their inner child.
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.
You – a raccoon – will experience the ridiculousness of this system, as you try to beat it.
Secrets of Barrenbrook
Bunbury Banter
Welcome to Barrenbrook. A town of whispers, a past steeped in mystery, and a future shaped by you.
Neither theatre nor game, yet something of both, Barrenbrook blends interactive storytelling with social deduction, no two performances are ever the same.
Deception lingers in the air, alliances shift, and the truth is unclear.
A gathering of strangers becomes a community, where some will watch and listen, while others step forward to guide the town’s fate.
The lanterns are lit. The stage is set. Bring your friends, your curiosity, and maybe a little caution, for an experience you’ll want to share.
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…
S(t)olas
Thomas Jancis
This hilarious and earnest participatory show sees the audience meet and converse with a demon confined within a circle.
But it’s not all just giant owls and favourite rocks. Drawing upon 17th century English folklore and biblical mythology to talk about modern day loneliness and isolation, S(t)olas examines connection, companionship, and community (and maybe covens) as the audience learn about the demon and perhaps help him to escape. Will you help the hapless demon, or seal his fate?
Support Group for the Newly Human
Chloe Mashiter
Depowered? Resurrected? Freed from a curse? You’re not alone.
Support Group for the Newly Human invites any and all ex-werewolves, -zombies, -vampires, -ghosts and -immortals to a welcoming, compassionate community of others facing the challenges of being human.
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A playful interactive piece about showing yourself compassion, letting yourself struggle, and trusting in who you are.
Support Group for the Newly Human encourages role-play from those present: everyone gets to choose a unique character, but it’s down to you how much you personally role-play. After all, every support group needs some good listeners.
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.
Zine making workshop: Cosy weird
Assemblage Collective
Step into the world of Cosy Weird Zines, where the ordinary meets the strange, and the comforting meets the uncanny. Join Assemblage Collective for a creative workshop exploring the worlds of weird fiction and ambient literature through playful warm up activities, storytelling through visual poetry, and zine making.
Dive into alternate realities during this relaxed morning of cosy crafting ~ it’s giving lightly haunted attic with a cup of tea. Explore new ideas, experiment with visual poetry and learn to craft a T-fold zine in this hands-on creative workshop.
Experience throughout the day:
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.”
Safety Blanket
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Safety Blanket is a series of ongoing knitting workshops, where participants are invited to knit collectively from the same piece, creating a multiple-edged textile piece that grows outwards and becomes a starting point for moments of spontaneous intimacy and connection between strangers. This workshop embraces the process of collective learning and does not aim to create a flawless final artwork: mistakes are welcome to remain in the piece.
Participants will be engaging in playful creativity and conversation, as the space becomes a therapeutic process that allows simple making to be celebrated and to aid a sense of ease in potentially challenging social settings.
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…)