A 90 minute absurd, multisensory, interactive, promenade performance with escape-room-vibes, that can exist as a gallery installations and a public space projection all at once!
In May 2026, we took over the entire Barnfield Theatre, Exeter. Based on the overwhelmingly positive audience feedback (as shown below), and artist energy to bring this story to more communities, we are actively looking for new partners and venues to bring BOXED! back to life…
The work can sit in a Multiple of spaces, from abandon hospital to large warehouses to small office blocks and intimate theatre spaces.
Audience feedback - May 2026 Barnfield, Exeter
Four to a scan, each are unfolded A6 white paper with differenced style handwriting in coloured sharpie-ink or pencil. Click here for all this feedback typed out in a .pdf.
←including find out more about accessible and for the show’s easy read guide
‘A masterpiece of immersive theatre’ Theatre Review - People's Republic of South Devon, James Banyard
‘Yesterday's performance was completely brilliant, like nothing I have experienced before’’
“Wow, it was the best Friday night I’ve had for a long time […] that energy, power, amazing” - Audience Members
BOXED! is a live multimedia portal into the joy, humour, and resilience of disabled people… yet something dark lurks at the end of the corridor. Experience an absurd, multisensory, interactive, promenade-performance with escape-room-vibes, where our very sense of who we are is pushed to the limit…
BOXED! asked audiences to be as ready as they can be to face tests, baffling forms and ridiculous challenges to satisfy a point-based system, before the algorithm takes over completely! Within this bizarre and uncanny labyrinth of waiting lists, bleary-eyed caseworkers and tangling red tape, the all-encompassing System is just getting started.
2025 - 2026 Partners
Producing Artist & Writer Hugh Malyon
Developed in collaboration with Tim Dollimore, with additional input and devising from all the creatives listed below and members of the Pelican Project’s Creative Connections group
Performed by Tim Dollimore, Sophia Knox-Miller, Hugh Malyon, Emma Jane Mansfield, Fynn Billy Roberts and Sadie Few
Integrated Support Facilitator: Sophie Cottle
Creative Producer: Sophia Knox-Miller
Production Assistant: Sadie Few
Calm Space Designer & Facilitator: Sarah Farrow-Jones
Access Consultancy: Jade Ward and Sarah Farrow-Jones
Creative technology design and technical manager: Tim Dollimore
Video design and technical assistant: Tristan Albon
Sound design and music: Harry Bassett
Audiovisual equipment generously supplied by The Media Workshop Ltd and QED Productions
Medical artwork and disinformation signage by Azriel-Mae Silvester, Eve Butler, James Madge, Autumn Ettles, Samuel Bailey-Merritt, Joanna Ward, Mason Johnstone
Featuring additional artworks by Lucy Bell (Tick Circles - Paper, textile, collage & Oma Keeling (Which of these 3 objects? - Video installation
BOXED! was made possible by the support of the Exeter Northcott’s Elevate Programme and Arts Council England.
The work places individual in a dystopian privatisation experiment where name and identity dissolve into numbers and never-ending form-filling. Faceless names and nameless panels are all too eager to decide the next persons worth. With the stakes increasingly higher and the hoops to jump through always shrinking, can we imagine a world where support is given based on what we need to thrive, not on how many boxes we can tick?
Within broken, dehumanising and arbitrary systems, BOXED! creates a shared space for community and offers a moment for hope and true care.
Trigger warnings: strong language, themes of disability, exclusion, dehumanisation, isolation, stress, and anger.
from 2021-2026 and beyond.
