Backstage is an original immersive environmental theatre production blending live magic, surreal theatre and audience interaction

BACKSTAGE

When the curtain falls, the real performance begins. Backstage is an original immersive environmental theatre production blending live magic, dark comedy, surreal theatre and audience interaction.

Set aboard a luxury cruise ship, the story begins during a glamorous cabaret performance, when an audience volunteer is invited onstage. What first feels unusual and exciting gradually unfolds into a strange system of rules, choices and consequences.

As the story develops, the boundaries between performer and audience, stage and backstage begin to dissolve. Through live magic, visual storytelling and intimate audience interaction, Backstage explores memory, identity, belonging and personal choice, while examining the quieter ways we can lose ourselves in places that make us feel unexpectedly at home.

At its heart, the production asks an unsettling question: when rules are placed in front of us, are we truly choosing to follow them, or simply becoming accustomed to staying?

For anyone who has ever said, “I’ll leave tomorrow.”

Following performances in China, Camden Fringe and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Backstage continues its UK tour, inviting audiences not simply to watch the story unfold, but to become part of its world.

All seating is unreserved.

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