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.
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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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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…?
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.
MIA
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?
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.
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.
Dig In
Yiannis Pappas
for better [or] worse
Caro Murphy and Arlo Howard
In Dig In, you play as a member of a family around the holiday dinner table. Every person at the table has a bone to pick with someone else, and conflicts will arise…
This LARP explores common family tensions and frustrations along with what makes a good apology.
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!
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.
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…
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.”
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
More to be announced…