The exhibition consists of a perfectly white, fully furnished room or series of rooms. Visitors may take a sheet of stickers and place those stickers wherever they wish. As they exhibition progresses, the walls and furnishing become more and more covered in colours and patterns, which emerge organically through small, independent choices. At the end of the exhibition, everything in the room, and the room itself, is destroyed entirely.
The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable (2013) is a large-scale immersive theatre production by Punchdrunk, directed by Felix Barrett. The work is set within a fragmented, noir-inflected vision of 1960s Hollywood and was staged across a vast warehouse environment at Temple Studios, London. Masked audience members are invited to move freely through an extensive architectural world composed of film studios, desert landscapes, bars, trailers, dressing rooms, and private interiors.
The Lander Division of the Centre for Astrobiology is responsible for exploring the outer realms of the galaxy. No division goes further or deeper into the unknown.
Tasked with discovering unchartered territories, exploring the outermost reaches and bringing back valuable data to the mothership.
A week ago, the crew of Lander 23 vanished while harvesting a new and valuable energy source. A distress signal then silence.
You are the next crew in.
Performance created by the group Third Rail Projects, and commissioned by Denver Center for the Performing Arts, first premiered on the 17th of May in 2016. Its creators described it as "immersive theatre" and it was critically acclaimed.
An award winning theatrical experience that tells Shakespeare’s Scottish tragedy, through a darkly cinematic lens. The story unfolds through an awe-inspiring blend of acrobatic choreography, film noir soundtrack, and countless rooms of densely detailed atmosphere. Guests decide where to go and what to see, ensuring that everyone’s journey is unique, and each visit is different.
The performance describes the life of the people who worked at The Great Grimsby Docks in the UK. It talks about the dangers of people who went missing or got lost at sea and the hardships and suffering of these working people in the 1930's.
In Ferst Dadler's life, creativity, relationships and the events of ephemeral things such as sound and movement were the priority. Creativity as a way of building relationships between people and non-people and developing one's own self-awareness. This promotes connection. And it is precisely the connection with one's own identity that allows us to face the responsibility we have towards others and the context. Ferst Dadler continues a deep dive into social practice, this time alongside the outstanding mezzo-soprano and composer Loré Lixenberg in the performance Konferentse.
Fotofinish tells the story of a man who photographs himself to combat loneliness. Played by Antonio Rezza, the man opens a studio and immortalises himself, playing the roles of customer and professional photographer. By multiplying his image, he begins to believe that he is a politician addressing a crowd. Between rallies, he announces that he is building travelling hospitals to go directly to the homes of the sick. In these hospitals, he appears as the head physician, a patient, or a cowled nun who substitutes medicine with the instruments of faith.
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 draws from Leo Tolstoy’s Russian masterpiece War and Peace. The show follows Natasha, who develops a relationship with rebel, Anatole, while her betrothed Andrey is off fighting. Andrey's best friend Pierre remains on high alert as the new romance takes shape. The show takes place in Moscow, 1812.
The production updates hamlet for a modern audience focusing on incorporating educational material surrounding the leaving certificate exam questions. This particular interpretation of the text focuses on the portrayals of mental health in the context of both history as of Shakespearean times and in the modern era. Back in Shakespeare’s day, many mental health problems were simply labeled as ‘Madness’, a key theme in Hamlet.
