Exploring the importance of touch, Within Touching Distance takes one audience member at a time through a journey from childhood to adulthood and old age through the medium of a bedtime routine. A patient-led artwork, the experience asks audiences to consider how we interact at a sensory level with the world and how our decisions can shape our lives. At the start of the 35-minute production, audiences put on a VR headset and are gently put to bed by a motherly figure before being immersed in an interactive dreamscape, exploring memories, and finally experiencing a palliative care setting. Each stage asks us about the nature of touch and the comfort of human connection.

Created by ZU-UK

Amplified Edition N ° 2 inhabits a space that questions how the gallery amplifies objects into art and how it choreographs visual, sonic and haptic encounters with representation. The work exists in the echoes and reverberations between performers, objects and visitors, and in the shifting transvaluation of incidental materiality.

Created by H2 Dance

Soundworlds is not just a podcast. It’s an audio stage for diverse stories told in extraordinary ways. It’s a place for an exciting new form of audio drama that we call sonic theatre.

Created by musicians, writers, theatre-makers and sound artists, sonic theatre pieces are more than radio plays. They’re immersive sound worlds, intoxicating blends of music and storytelling, sound design, documentary and fiction.

Soundworlds was named Best Fiction Podcast at the British Podcast Awards 2022, in addition to receiving a silver Creativity Award in the same year.

Created by Patrick Eakin Young

This game won’t reverse the damage or change the ending or save the pandas but
It’s not about guilt, It’s not about shame, It’s not even about you

It is about learning to put blame where it belongs and how it is that certain things came to be in our hands, delivered to us by the hands of ghosts……and that no matter how hard you dust, you’ll not find their fingerprints.

Warning: This game is not a real ghost hunt. You’ll not be searching for headless kings or grey ladies in attics. These ghosts are of a different nature altogether…

Do you believe in ghosts?

Created by ZU-UK

Join the Department and step into the 1940s. Eavesdrop on discussions in the place where history happened and where crucial decisions were made during the tensest days in the Second World War. 

Guided by the characters you meet along the way, historic Churchill War Rooms will be your stage for an evening of mystery solving, code-cracking and drama, enabling you to truly immerse yourself in the history books.

Created by Wet Picnic Theatre

An electrifying re-imagining of the ultimate love triangle. Mother. Father. Son. An emergency diagnosis crushes Jocasta's dreams of becoming a mother and sends her spiralling into hedonistic freefall. Pecho Mama's radical reinvention of the myth is an intoxicating whirlwind of ecstasy and devastation. A powerhouse psychological thriller, marrying London's domestic grit with a searing live electronica score.

Created by Pecho Mama

UK Visas and Immigration Officers scrutinise and dissect the minutiae of a young couple's turbulent marriage to decide on whether 3717 photos, Tesco receipts and occasional indulgences from Ann Summers qualifies them as being in love and able to remain in the UK.

Created by Hack Theatre

First Response has been created and performed by individuals who worked the front lines of some of the most difficult experiences of The Troubles.  What secrets do these men and women hold in their physiology, and how can their story help us understand ourselves and the society we live in today?

Produced by Derry Playhouse, Directed by Ailin Conant

Translyria is a costume drama, where the gender roles are challenged in every imaginable way: Woman plays man born as a woman. Woman playing woman dressing up as man. Woman plays man who exercises power over women, and man plays woman who is oppressed by men - all this in a tragedy Shakespeare did not know he wrote.

Produced by Sogn og Fjordane Teater, Directed by Frode Gjerlow

A Palestinian woman takes a striking photograph of a boy. A journalist steals the image for an unrelated article. A blogger is moved to tears by the article and posts a tribute. An SEO specialist makes the blogger’s tribute go viral. Now all four are caught in a media storm, in a whirring story that moves from reality into dark fantasy as the algorithms spin to deliver ‘what people want’.

Welcome to the stimulating world of Feed where emotions are the currency and your passions and fantasies will be indulged... for a price. After the success of The Marked and The Fantasist, Theatre Témoin return, bringing their vibrant visual style to the world of click-bait culture, fake news and cyber gluttony.

Created by Theatre Temoin

The Art of Gaman is an aching exploration of displacement and loss of cultural identity when you find yourself in a country that considers you an enemy. When forgetting your past is shameful, but remembering brings even greater pain, Tomomi must harness the strength to find beauty in the struggle and carve out a new life for herself and be true to who she really is.

Produced by Theatre 503, Directed by Ailin Conant

Escape life on demand.

Watch and listen as HD cameras and bespoke technology create a unique soundscape from the movement of a flower blooming. All you have to do is surrender to the act of waiting.

Created by Abigail Conway

Khemiri's carousel of one theatrical text sees the struggle between trust and condemnation and sets questions about fear rhetoric and foreclosure in a multicultural society. His playful style, whose language and identity are constantly changing, has attracted the attention and dedication of a wide theater audience at home and abroad. 

Produced by Sogn og Fjordane Teater, Directed by Frode Gjerlow

Binaural dinner Date is an audio experience that looks at dating from the inside out. With a waiter that waits and a Chef to guide you what's the worst that could happen?

Part interactive performance, part dating agency, Binaural Dinner Date invites genuine applications from individuals looking for love, or existing couples who simply want a very different dating experience.

WARNING: Do not come if you are fundamentally opposed to falling in love.

Created by ZU-UK

"Blue Flame… I burn with a blue flame.
I’m a yellow rock that burns with a blue flame.
Devilish and pungent. I spew from the earth.
I’m the core of the earth and I burn with a blue flame."

Sulphur, is a beguiling, playfully poetic and choreographic ensemble performance that considers the history and mythology of this most diabolical element.

Created by Sheila Ghelani

Combining acrobatics, physical theatre and video projected onto water, Vessel is a visually stunning performance for outdoor after dark programming. Bitter-sweet theatre and the visual poetry for which Acrojou is renowned, Vessel is the sequel to 2016's highly acclaimed All at Sea.

Created by Acrojou

A storm in a tea up, the cloud that we all carry, a boat-sized piece of one man’s inner ocean... 

All at Sea is a theatrical installation set in a boat, which rows gently through the tides of the world around us. In limbo between life and death, a lone boatman traverses a vast ocean of memories and past hopes, accompanied by his own personal storm.

Created by Acrojou

Enter a lost world of prehistoric proportions, where the past and present entwine like a strand of DNA.  Dare to visit an ancient island driven by dollars and dinosaurs.  But what really happened off the west coast of Costa Rica in 1989?  There have been numerous stories, countless rumours, a few films and a couple of books... But now Superbolt have excavated the truth!

Created by Superbolt Theatre

In our modern world where the internet and technology are evolving faster than we are, it is hard to keep pace.  We all exist somewhere online, whether we know it or not: a virtual trace, an online persona, a trail of clicks and searches that leads directly to you.

Created by Wet Picnic Theatre

Tales of 1,700 foot waves, month-long storms, and sea creatures the size of luxury cruise liners.
Whether they are stories of fact or fantasy will no longer matter.

In a climate that is rapidly changing, The Fish Tales of Alaska explores the love story that is our volatile relationship with the sea.

With a mesmerising original score, together with beautiful visuals,this multidisciplinary performance is created by T.U.C

Love, freedom, blood, sweat and rain-storms: Frantic is an explosive and moving exploration of our relentless devotion to business  Acrobatics and dance-theatre choreographed around a bespoke structure, Frantic uses a rich physical language to pull apart it's subject - the reality of a running mind and one man's thirst for escape.

Produced by Acrojou

Death and Gardening by Wet Picnic Theatre, is inspired by our human connection to the natural world; from the cradle to the grave, from the Garden of Eden to ashes and dust, stories of life and death are frequently told using images of gardens, flowers and earth. Drawing on a broad spectrum of influences, this piece explores loss and lilies, love and lettuces, and everything in between.

Produced by Wet Picnic Theatre

Frank’s still here. Or is he? The old Frank played the guitar on stage. This Frank can’t even bring himself to take it out of the case.

Finding Frank is the story of a relationship forged through music between an elderly man with extreme Anxiety Disorder and a young music facilitator. Using the testimonies of people living with mental health issues, this compelling performance explores how music can heal a mind in chaos.

Gunwharfe Quays has a rich and varied history and Wet Picnic plan to explore that in various ways placing performance in and around the water, installations throughout the site, characters and storytelling and a large choral piece.  As part of Depth Charge they are looking to work with local people to create this wonderful site specific performance.