Voidspace Dispatches

October 2025: Mini-festivals, first encounters and the Shonen Mindset

Hello everyone!

As we roll into October, the pace isn’t slackening: the month ahead offers a huge of interactive delights from lo fi to high tech, including Theatre Deli’s interactive R&D First Encounters, new live art blockbusters from Marina Abramovich and Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley, and the return of 1884 - the anti-colonial game theatre show first staged by Coney and now on tour throughout the UK.

Those of us at home aren't left out this month: our conversation with the mildly legendary Yannick Trapman-O'Brien gives some great insights into the power of the invitation, how to make an experience truly personal and the joys of the Shonen Mindset.

Most exciting for us (and yes we are a little biased) is the launch of a brand new Voidspace mini-festival Voidspace Participatory Network, landing for one day only on 20 October 2025 (also your Void in Chief’s birthday) at Colab Tower, London. We’ll be presenting a tasting menu some our favourite grassroots interactive offerings:

• for one time only Emily Carding’s complete Coward Conscience Trilogy (all three interactive Shakespeares, in Emily’s words “too insane not to do.”)
• Seth Kreibel’s brand new show, The Map & The Echo
• Living Pages: an ambient lit workshop from Tom Abba
• The Shop for Mortals and All Fools from Punchdrunk alum Vinicius Salles
• A knees-up to remember as we see the return of festival favourites Uncle Barry’s Birthday Party!

​Tickets here - code VOIDFRIEND gives you 20% off…

Finally, we have reached another milestone here in the Voidspace with the launch of a brand new Patreon! You support will help keep the lights on, and supporters have the opportunity to snag extra Void Jottings, priority booking and registration, online and in person meets, merch and er…hot sauce.

I’m excited about the chance to make things a little more personal and have a little fun with something different. Find out more here.​

We can’t wait to see you, online or in person soon.

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Voidspace at Home

interactive arts to experience at your own pace

Voidspace in Conversation:

• ​Yannick Trapman-O’Brien (with guest appearance by Lyra Levin). We welcome Yannick, creator The Telelibrary and Undersigned, his truly astounding shows for an audience of one into the Voidspace. Read on to discover the power of the invitation, how to create true safety without compromising experience, and why a good immersive experience is like the TARDIS.

​Voidspace in Conversation Vols 1& 2, for more interviews, essays and insights, get your mitts on the Voidspace’s first anthology of collected interviews and essays.

Accessibility extra:

​A Creative Access Toolkit for Immersive Performance - The team behind Unwired Dance theatre have developed a toolkit, based on six months of R&D for Where we Meet. Alongside consultants, disabled participants and creative technologists they’ve shaped a workshop and guidance on crafting a fully integrated access journey - from concept to audience experience.

Voidspace Explores

interactive arts listings

VoidThings

• ​Monday 20 October: Voidspace Participatory Network (VPN): You’ve heard of IEN, get ready for VPN! To celebrate our friends the Immersive Experience Summit’s 2025 summit on 21-22 October, we are putting on a very special day of the best grassroots interactive theatre. Plus the chance to raise a glass with friends old and new, as we gather to celebrate our community. See you there!
  • Colab Tower, London
  • 20 October 2025

Online events

• ​Homunculus by Joe Strickland of Chronic Insanity Theatre is a comedy horror monologue about an influencer who goes viral with footage of their pet frogs. However, their search to keep their followers interests ends with them creating something out of this world.
  • Online
• ​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. You’ve never experienced service like ours. 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

October 2025

• ​The Delusion by Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley presents a new video game and multiplayer immersive experience that uses satire, humour and cooperative play to explore polarisation, censorship and social connection.
• Serpentine Gallery, London.
• 1 October 2025 - 18 January 2026
• ​First Encounters - Eight research and development performances of new immersive work. Will you be involved in rituals, be sequestered into purgatory or deal with a lone robot?
  • Theatre Deli, London
  • 3-7 October 2025
• ​DARKFIELD - Catch four shows from immersive audio specialists Darkfield. ARCADE, uses the nostalgic aesthetic of 1980's video games to explore the evolving relationship between players and avatars. FLIGHT, takes audience members through two worlds, two realities and two possible outcomes to their journey. Fall into COMA and take part in a mass experiment, where audiences lie down together and slip into a collective dream. And finally, there’s EULOGY, a journey through a dreamlike, labyrinth hotel that exists only in your mind.
  • Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
  • 7 October - 2 November
• ​NOWISWHENWEARE - A light and sound installation as part of London Film Festival. This immersive installation invites you to explore the cosmos – and your inner self – one luminous moment at a time.
  • Rambert Studio, London
  • 3 - 19 October 2025
• ​Marina Abramovic: Balkan Erotic Epic - Experience the raw, unfiltered power of Balkan folklore in a new immersive show from the world’s most famous performance artist
  • 9-19 October
  • Factory International, Manchester
• ​LILITH.AI Lecture Performance - Through movement and narrative, the artists reveal their years-long dialogue with artificial intelligence, culminating in the birth of Lilith—a digital entity that dances between existence and possibility, memory and prophecy. This 40-minute performance opens a portal to tomorrow while remaining rooted in timeless questions: What lies beyond our physical limitations? And in our quest to transcend death, what new forms of life might we discover?
  • Rich Mix, London
  • 15 October 2025
• ​Revolution Stage - From Sofia Briccio, An immersive performance to explore history through the eyes of a witness from the French Revolution.
  • City Academy, London
  • 18 October 2025
• ​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
  • Various Dates, October 2025
• ​1884 - an anti-colonial game theatre show, originally produced by Coney, this show focuses on the 1884 Berlin conference, an overlooked historical turning point for the African continent and the world.
  • Manchester, Coventry, London and Norwich
  • Various dates, October 2025
• ​Day At The Beach is a one-woman show presented as part of Grimfest 2025. A tangled tale of psychological horror, supernatural visitations, and sisterhood, Day at The Beach is an immersive theatre production that leaves the dark to your imagination.
  • Chats Palace Arts Centre, London
  • 24 - 25 October 2025
• ​The Map and the Echo - From friend of the void Seth Kriebel of The Unbuilt Room and Faust, an audio tour of the British Library leads to an interactive performance, part game, part performance. Inspired by choose-your-own-adventure stories and early text-adventure computer games, each performance is unique, shaped by your choices. Using simple instructions like ‘Go North’ or ‘Pick up the lamp’, the audience works together to navigate this other place, overcoming obstacles and exploring the Library… without leaving your seat.
  • British Library, London
  • 28 October, 11 November, 2 December
• ​TOMYUMSIM Theatre Trainwreck is a delirious, ever-mutating satire where you and your co-passengers attempt to steer towards a dream destination. Your choices fuel the engine - while AI fiddles with the map, the throttle, and possibly reality itself.
  • Cyto, South Norwood, London
  • 29 October - 1 November
• ​What We Must - Make your choice. Save your home. Are you ruthless enough to survive the post-apocalypse? With enthralling storytelling and a bone-chilling live soundtrack, What We Must will immerse you in a dark and desperate wasteland of your own creation. The clock is ticking, and working with your fellow survivors, you must decide just how much your willing to sacrifice to protect the people you love. We have to get home. Terrible choices lie in our path. We will do what we must.
  • Colab Tower, London
  • 30 October - 1 November
• ​ORIGIN at Dunham Massey - A Right/Left Project presents a new deep listening art installation, unique to Dunham Massey. Lay down and be bathed in sound and light with each cycle revealing what is hidden at its core. ORIGIN explores life’s cycle and our deep connection to nature through a durational sound installation.
  • Dunham Massey, UK
  • Ongoing until 2 November 2025
• ​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 until October 2025
• ​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 until September 2025

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November 2025

• ​Handle with Care - Ontroerend Goed - A box is mailed to the theatre. The instructions are clear: Invite a group of people, on a specific night, at a specific time. Let the audience take their seats. Place the box at the centre of the stage. The audience is waiting. An audience member stands up and opens the box. The show has begun. Take good care of it. And send us a postcard.
  • Battersea Arts Centre, London
  • 12 - 14 November 2025
• ​Untested - Bunbury Banter brings together creatives and radical play makers from diverse disciplines to explore and expand innovative immersive experience design.
  • Pluto Q Community Reading Room, Glasgow
  • 13 November 2025
• ​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
  • 15 November 2025 - 15 February 2026
• ​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
  • 23 November 2025 - 1 February 2026
• ​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

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