An absurd, multisensory, interactive, promenade performance with escape-room-vibes
‘A brave and generous glimpse of the kaleidoscope of being alive’
“Wow, it was the best Friday night I’ve had for a long time […] that energy, power, amazing” - Audience Members
Devised and performed: Hugh Malyon and Tim Dollimore
Performed with BSL: Emma Jane Mansfield
With Fynn Billy Roberts
Produced by: Sophia Knox-Miller
Creative input and outside eye support from the Pelican Project, Exeter
Sound Designer and Musician: Harry Basset
Artistic Support and Access Consultant by: Jade Ward and Sarah Farrow-Jones
For the full creative team, please visit the Squeeze Box growing collaboration page (from core artists to makers in residence)
A 70-90 minute performance
Within broken, dehumanising and arbitrary systems, BOXED! creates a shared space for community and offers a moment for hope and true care.
Join us at The Barnfield Theatre, Exeter 21st-22nd May
Be as ready as you 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.
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…
If we ever finally get through the eerie waiting room limbo, can we survive the onslaught of questions and accusations? And what comes next? [You are number 243 in the queue].
Be part of a privatisation experiment where your name and identity dissolve into numbers and never-ending form-filling. Faceless names and nameless panels are all too eager to decide your 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.
Explore the care centred process behind our latest work: Squeeze Box
2021-ongoing: A complete timeline and guide to the creativity, conversations and purpose behind what is now a movement of care, workshop and liveness
2021-2022: Journey of reflection and radical R&D, cementing a process fuelled by live performance, sound and projection
2023-2024: the previous version of BOXED! A live performance exploring care, companionship, who theatre is for and how we can transform space together, staged from community spaces in South Devon, to Battersea Arts Centre and more
Our ongoing commitment and learning on the ‘relaxed’ space: How we imbed access and care throughout process and an introduction to our main workshop offer- come and make an Anon
from 2021-2026 and beyond.
A powerful and care driven exploration into disability, performance and multimedia interaction
