Participatory – Archive

In Rotating in a Room of Images, participants spend the majority of the 15-minute production in pitch darkness, guided only by invisible hands and the spooky voice in the headphones.

Wondermart continues Rotozaza’s work with audio-instructed performance and develops the site-specific element introduced in Etiquette.

The Forest Fringe is set to challenge every convention in sight, from the role of the audience right up to what we can comfortably classify as theatre.

The Gate Theatre is thirty years old this year, and they’ve been involving their fans in the celebrations…Taking part in the exhibition engenders a strange feeling of connectedness.

Participatory theatre is hard. Especially when the audience don’t want to play ball. But I remain to be convinced that relentless pestering, emotional blackmail and the odd physical shove onto the dancefloor is the answer.

Punchdrunk have woven iconic cultural references from the myth of Faust into the physical appearance of the rooms, corridors and stairwells of the building at 21 Wapping Lane.

For the past ten years, writer and director Anthony Hampton and performer Silvia Mercuriali have been creating cutting edge performance work under the company name, Rotozaza. This interview takes a look at some of Rotozaza’s key works that form the…

Part 1 of a two-part retrospective article on Shunt’s production of Amato Saltone.

Part 2 of a two-part retrospective article on Shunt’s production of Amato Saltone.

Can anyone really accept with open arms the responsibility of another’s sensations?