Join us in the digiVoid for a smorgasbord of online delights: shows, games, on demand experiences and more.
Programme
52 Souls
Chronic Insanity Theatre
On demand
50 mins
Rated 14+
by Nat Henderson and Joe Strickland
Humanity has both a morbid curiosity and an instinctual repulsion when it comes to death. Over the next 50 minutes we’ll find out which is stronger. Although it’s something we’ll all go through, death is one of the least understood parts of
the human experience, so Chronic Insanity is diving into the deep end.
52 Souls is an open and fun examination of death and our reactions to this terrifying inevitability. Using a pack of cards, the audience randomly generates a performance to understand humanity’s obsession with – and ignorance about
– death.
★★★★ – Broadway World
Critic’s Top Pick – The i
“Fresh and exciting” – The Upcoming
“Ingenious” – British Theatre Guide
“Smartly Brilliant” – The Wee Review”
Call of Cthulu: Carver’s Greed
C. Hakan Akgül
18 September 2026
7.30pm
c. 2 hours
Capacity: 6
The year is 1923, the place is Arkham. As mysterious figures go, Edgar Carver was as closeted and odd as any. However, when he realized he was about to reach the end of his life, he decided to invite six different people from all over the country to share his fortune.
These people may seem randomly selected to most, but Edgar knew them all by heart. Lured by the promise of money, what mysteries and horrors await our adventurers? Will they be able to make it out alive to spend their share or will they meet a dark and horrible end?
This is a Call of Cthulhu one-shot with 6 pre-made characters. The players will get to pick and choose which character they wish to play and will be given short descriptions about how to play as them.
This game is completely beginner friendly, you do not even have to know how to play ttrpgs, let alone Call of Cthulhu.
Content Warnings: Violence, Horror, Addiction, Grief.
Flavour Text
Chronic Insanity Theatre
On demand
1-3 hours
Rated 15+
by Megan Gates, Charlotte Holder, Ruth Mestel, Harry Smith, Joe Strickland & Sophie Whitebrook:
“This restaurant is now a Tex-Mex place. Food fine but owner not as polite as the previous (I wonder what happened to him?)”
Flavour Text is the term used to describe the environmental storytelling that gives an audience extra insight into a fictional world. The written equivalent of a found footage film, Flavour Text is an internet wide, narrative treasure hunt.
You find yourself looking for the number for your favourite takeaway online, when you realise that the restaurant has closed down suddenly. While looking for the reason, the audience falls into a rabbit hole of lies and deceit that they discover through review and comment sections across a variety of websites.
★★★★ – North West End
★★★★ – The Upcoming
★★★★ – Pocket Size Theatre
HACKTECTIVE: Goddard Solutions
But Why?
14 – 26 September
Various times
1 hour
Capacity: 1
At Goddard Solutions, we provide a service no search engine, background check, or private investigator can offer.
We answer the question our clients can’t.
“Who is this person, really?”
As a newly hired HACKTECTIVE, you’ll be granted temporary access to a client’s chosen subject’s computer. Your role is not to solve crimes or recover data. It is to deduce and report.
Every folder, message, photo, draft, and search history is a clue.
Some clients are considering hiring someone. Others are deciding whether to trust a business partner, reconnect with an estranged family member, or hand over something valuable. They don’t want facts alone they need your professional judgement.
Your report will answer a single question:
Is this a good person?
There are no right answers.
Only evidence.
At Goddard Solutions, we don’t tell clients what someone has done.
We tell them who they are.
Content Warnings: Imagine all the things you may not want others to see if they got into your personal devices…well
That’s exactly what you are doing.
So: Potential language, sexual content and personal information. As you are going through someone’s computer it depends on what you click/solve yourself.
labRats
cirqueSaw
17 September 2026 : 7.30pm
20 September 2026 : 7.30pm
75-85 mins
Capacity: 20
Despite all your rage, you are still just a rat in a cage. Luckily, you’re also a rat who’s been outfitted with a neural implant that allows you to communicate telepathically with the other rats in your cage. Maybe that’ll help.
labRats is a digitally native interactive performance for 20 people by the award-winning duo cirqueSaw. Pulling equally from classic games, silent films, and a generous helping of Lewis Carroll, the piece seeks to blur the line between reality and unreality, between wonder and horror.
Straddling the line between theatre and game, the audience plays as rats in a lab outfitted with neural transmitters, and interact through a bespoke browser-based platform. A researcher performed by a live actor subjects them to a capricious experiment. Later, the rats are set free from their cage, and explore the lab which is full of mysteries, puzzles, stories, and mini-games. Finally, the researcher ups the ante and the rats have to decide how to respond together.
Audiences play as lab rats in an experiment beyond their control, who have to work together to take control of their lives. Whether they choose to escape, take over the lab, or deconstruct the fabric of the reality of their experience itself is entirely up to them.
Co-created live with the audience, every show is different.
The Map and the Echo
Seth Kriebel
19-26 September
Various times
40 mins
Capacity: 15
The Map and the Echo is a new edition in Seth Kriebel’s acclaimed series of interactive Exploration Games (including The Unbuilt Room and A House Repeated).
The Map and the Echo is a new 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.