Interactive Arts

Voidspace Dispatches: December 2025 - sci fi interactive, smuggling sofas and a very bad Santa

Hello everyone!

As the year winds down, and we all take a deep breath before the madness of holiday season, the immersive & interactive world brings us some exciting reasons to leave the house.

Seasonal treats included Phantom Peak’s Wintermas, where jolly, purple clad and strangely sinister Father Platmus leads the cosy-wierd festivities, and the return of family cockle-warmer The Lost Library of Leake Street.

If you fancy something a little different, we are excited to see two interactive pieces at this week's Talos sci fi theatre festival: Intrapology’s queer interactive theatre Assigned Earth at Birth

and twine poetry flavoured Occasionally Gleeful Worms in Hell.

2025 has been a pivotal year for the Voidspace. It's the year when Voidspace Live went big, when Voidspace in Conversation went into print, and when a steady programme of scratches, showcases and workshops brought more of you into the void.

We'll be back early doors in January with some exciting announcements about what 2026 has to hold. We’ve a feeling it's going to be good.

In the meantime, in the words of Father Platmus:

Ho ho ho! I shall destroy you all!

Or, if you prefer, have a cosy, weird and joyful end to 2025.

The Void loves you! 🖤

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Voidspace at home

interactive arts to experience at your own pace

This month we welcome artist, curator and writer Andy Field into the Voidspace to talk about performance art, Paper Stages, smuggling sofas, and what led Mickey Mouse and Darth Vader to chase each other around a London cinema.

​Read the interview here.

Voidspace explores

interactive arts listings

Online events

• ​Lennox Mutual by Candle House Collective - Welcome to Lennox Mutual: a Life En-surance company, here to help you make the most of the time you have. We offer policies – to get yours, all you have to do is make an appointment. For more information, book a one-on-one phone session. Our live representatives are trained to make you feel, make you think, and of course, make you smile. Read our conversation with Candlehouse Collective here.​
  • Online
  • Various dates, 2025
• ​Telelibrary - Dial in to the Telelibrary to discover a unique piece of interactive 1:1 theatre
  • Online
  • Various dates, 2025

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In-person events

December 2025

• ​Assigned Earth at Birth - As part of TALOS V - Science Fiction Theatre Festival Intrapology presents a series of online interactive performances focused on video calls between alien anthropologists and their supervisors. The audience collectively shapes the story through multiple choice voting and free text entry.
  • Online and in person at Bread and Roses theatre, London
  • 11-12 December 2025
• ​Occasionally Gleeful Worms in Hell - As part of TALOS V - Science Fiction Theatre Festival, come listen to the beautiful and alarming song of the occasionally gleeful worms. Poetry and prose reading including a Twine being played interactively with the audience. All income from ticket sales will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians: https://www.map.org.uk/
  • Bread and Roses Theatre, London
  • 13 December 2025
• ​The Lost Library of Leake Street - Step into The Lost Library of Leake Street with Isla, and join her on a whirlwind journey as she explores all the stories that London has to offer, and learns how connection can be found in the most unlikely of places. A show for people of all ages, you'll experience a truly unique Christmas show about family, loss, magic, and the stories that bind us all together.
  • The Glitch, London
  • 26 November - 22 December 2025
• ​The Dead by James Joyce - Adapted and directed by Louise Lowe, one of the greatest short stories ever written is turned into a wonderful piece of immersive theatre.
  • Museum of Literature, Ireland
  • Ongoing until 1 February 2026
• ​Hitchhikers Live - A new live version of Douglas Adams’ mind-blowingly imaginative comedy (mis)adventure, settle in for an evening of storytelling and spectacle. Hitch a ride on a passing spaceship, convince a group of inter-dimensional mice to give Earth a second chance.
  • Riverside Studios, London
  • Ongoing until 15 February 2026
• ​Quantum Untangled - Through interactive artworks, immersive sculptural installations and the words of physicists, philosophers and poets, Science Gallery London’s new exhibition Quantum Untangled fuses art, science and extraordinary interdisciplinary research together to consider big quantum questions and reveal the power quantum possesses to transform our futures.
  • Science Gallery London
  • Ongoing until February 2026
• ​Phantom Peak: Wintermas - An open world, immersive experience set in a steampunk town filled with live actors, puzzles and mysteries.
  • Canada Water, London
  • Ongoing until 19 January 2026
• ​Jury Games, live - play, sift through evidence and interview defendants to get to the truth. Read our conversation with creator Tom Black.
  • Theatre Deli, London
  • Ongoing
• ​Bridge Command - Ever wanted to fly your own starship? Fully interactive adventures in space from the team behind Parabolic Theatre. Read our conversation with Director Owen Kingston​
  • Vauxhall, London
  • Ongoing

January 2026

• ​Dante or Die: I Do - As part of Scene Change, step into a hotel and witness the havoc unfold in the final ten minutes before a wedding in this unforgettable theatrical event about family, love and chaos.
  • 20 Jan - 6 Feb 2026
  • Malmaison Hotel, London

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COLAB Theatre does Blood on the Clocktower → https://www.colabtheatre.co.uk/whatson

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