30 July 2011 Platform Festival

Theatre like you've never seen it before.

Listeners is the name of our ongoing exploration of interactive and game-based theatre.  Listeners started at the Pleasance Theatre's Big Day Our in July 2010 with a full-on interactive game involving 30 escaped test patients and an unassuming audience of 200 'spotters'.

It moved to the Platform Festival in July 2011, when 15 young people from the adjacent Andover Estate were given a crash course in interactive theatre by the directors Terry O'Donovan, Tas Emiabata and Casey Middaugh. There, the audience were encouraged to spot unusual scenes and incidences - a floating swimming costume, a lost towel, a strange rave with a tragic ending.