There are three main performance slots per day, with shows running concurrently.
You will be able to catch at least three shows (some run more than once over a slot) and sample a range of games, self directed performances, durationals, 1:1s and more!
Registration will open nearer the time and you will then be able to choose your preferred shows.
Faust
Seth Kriebel and Zoe Bouras
Come right in. Have a seat. Name your price.
Faust is a new version of a very old story, a gently interactive twist on the classic tale of the infamous doctor and his deal with the devil.
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.
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Deadweight Theatre Company
Void friends Deadweight are a London-based experimental theatre company specialising in interactive performance. Their multi-disciplinary approach to making work draws on their backgrounds in scenography, dramaturgy, filmmaking, and visual art.
Their show The Manikins: A Work in Progress was a sell-out hit in 2024, and we are so excited to be welcoming them into the Void for a sharing of new work this June.
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.
Where We Meet
Unwired Dance
What if you could hear others’ inner thoughts? Immersive dance theatre meets XR tech to spark human connection in an increasingly digital – yet divided and lonely – world. Step into the minds of three unique characters, and join them as they embark on individual and uplifting journeys of self-discovery.
Where We Meet is an interactive and immersive dance theatre performance, where you’re in control to reveal the hidden stories behind each character. We invite you to rediscover the joy of human connection, as an antidote to today’s increasingly digital – yet divided and lonely – world.
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?
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?
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”.
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.
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.
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.
HESTIA DELTA ONE
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 tropes. You will make characters during the game.
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…
Tom Abba: an introduction to Ambient Lit
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.
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.
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.
Meet Me 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
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.
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…
SMITE (Shadows Must Intervene to Endure)
Ed Davies
A telephone rings…
Answer the call from another time.
Follow the whispered fragments and the paths between reality.
Discover, deliver, decide: The Fate of those who reside.
All will be lost should you not step inside.
The drum beat sounds, in confidence confide.
Gaslamps alighting, memories fracturing, shadows searching, and love letters burning.
The veil between worlds is thinning.
SMITE is returning.
Be the cure, with hearts pure.
Shadows Must Intervene To Endure
Durationals (available throughout the day)
Cafe 2105
Maria Jose Siminez Silva
Café 2105 is an interactive site responsive autobiographical headphone performance that explores the inevitability of displacement and emmigration 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.”
More to be announced…