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Liv Ello

All the Beautiful Things is a solo comedy live art show exploring trans identity, rural working-class masculinity, and intergenerational trauma through absurdist humour, clowning, and non-linear storytelling - using a scarecrow as a metaphor for navigating shame, fear, and the search for beauty and self-acceptance. At its core, All The Beautiful Things is about the wounds passed down through generations. Through its comedic approach, the show creates space for vulnerability, tenderness, and connection, offering a much-needed counter-narrative to the dominant cultural messages of fear and shame. At the heart of the performance is a call to reconnect with beauty, to embrace vulnerability, and to break the cycles of violence that often define masculine identity.

Joss Kelvin & Sarah Brin

ARCANA is an XR storyworld that uncovers a layer of reality beyond our own, populated by embodied incarnations of the characters of the Tarot.

Imagine a surrealist Star Trek, set at Berghain and birthed by Bowie or Bjork.

ARCANA carries the methodology of the Muppets into the future, expressly designed as a fluid, platform-agnostic XR character ensemble centred around music. These are the Muppets if they were designed by Vivienne Westwood, a wild, dysfunctional family of eccentric eternals who throw caba-raves to recharge the drained spirit of our cracking world. But as rifts grow, it will be up to us to decide: Will we cooperate, or will we break the machine?

We are prototyping a central element of our K-Pop-like ecosystem: a live-action co-op immersive gig that invites each audience member into a personalised Matrix-like quest by tapping the responsive power of emerging technology.

Loy Webster & Ornagh Lynch

CLUB EGO is an absurd, high-energy XR experience that catapults the player into queer club culture. We want the audience to let go of all things superficial and be their loosest selves. Attendees are pushed to dance their way through an immersive landscape of over-the-top characters, banging tunes, and surreal interactions. Through gags and play, Club Ego breaks down pretense to tap into real self-expression.

Our audience will be anyone who wants a boost in confidence - gamers, experience seekers, huns, queer folk, shy folk, and the curious. It will be about finding yourself and using expression to feel more free. Players will face their fears and explore new sides through interacting with characters and performers, who through roasts, laughs and jeers, show you to face some of life’s judgement head on, get out of your comfort zone, and be free.

Matt Wieteska & Alex MacMillan

Aliens have crash-landed in your house! They’re very small, and they’re hiding everywhere. While they wait for rescue they need your help gathering essential supplies (water, dark corners, used toilet rolls) - and avoiding discovery!

“Displaced” is a playful, character-focused workplace comedy that takes place in your own home. As players explore their houses with an AR interface, they discover sections of a stricken alien spaceship - and in interacting with its charming residents, get pulled into the playful sitcom unfolding all around them.

Taking inspiration from well-loved “comfort” comedies like “Parks and Recreation”, “Bob’s Burgers” & “Schitt’s Creek”, “Displaced” is a gentle, character-led comedy of misunderstandings, developing friendships and rediscovering the comforts of home in a new, strange place. Meet your favourite gang of outcasts - they’re right in your living room.

Matt Shaw & Nina Segal

An MIT investigation revealed that Roomba, the robot vacuum manufacturer, had shared tens of thousands of images taken inside people’s homes with human categorisation teams tasked with labelling the data so AI could be trained. In the same year Amazon tried to buy the company for $1.4 billion. We are data points and our custom is valuable to a corporation not only for what we buy, but also for the information about us - how we live, where we go, what we buy, who our friends are - information that our trusted home devices can harvest. ‘HARVEST’ is a darkly comedic VR experience exploring surveillance capitalism, told through the eyes of a robotic vacuum. Through a razor-sharp script, this gripping family narrative explores the disquieting undercurrent that pervades modern lives as we hand over our data into the hands of the small - and therefore the big - machines.

Jane Gauntlett & Arlo Howard

You could be heroes!
Looking for an adventure? The time and space to be whoever you want to be?
Are you a giver? The kind of person who would like to have words like selfless, groundbreaking and innovative chanted at your funeral?
You might be the perfect candidate for our life changing, corporate BS trainee scheme!
"Hero" is a mixed reality experience for two audience members at a time. Set in a (slightly suspect) space training simulation, paired audience members experience one narrative from two different perspectives.

Nosa Eke & Andrew Oldbury

"Hosted and Ghosted" unleashes a wild, based on a true story, interactive scripted mystery-comedy series on Instagram that proves truth really is stranger than fiction. When a group of teenagers discover a mysterious "deposit" at their friend's house party, their night spirals into chaos filled with bizarre investigations, budding romances, and mounting suspicions. What starts as a funny story to tell at reunions takes a chilling turn years later when they discover the terrifying truth: they weren't alone that night. Someone was watching. And hiding. As the group reunite to walkthrough all they remember and all that has happened since, this thrilling twist throws a spanner in the groups shared memories.

Through our innovation, audiences can experience both timelines simultaneously or separately– experiencing the hilarious, tension-filled party night and its present-day revelations. With XR elements that pull viewers directly into the mystery, this immersive story transforms viewers into detectives. This accessible experience makes immersive storytelling available to anyone. No special equipment needed – just your smartphone and your wit.

Fanni Fazakas

Ready for the most absurd open house in Mixed Reality? Welcome to HOWSE, where the only thing more terrifying than the housing market is the house itself. Born from the bitter frustrations of a generation locked out of homeownership, this reality-bending satire makes the harsh truths of the housing crisis tangible through dark comedy. Will you own the house, or will the house own you?

Kate Cheka & Harry Silverlock

"A Messiah Comes" is a VR experience that reimagines Kate Cheka’s stand-up sketches as an interactive journey into a surreal, first-person world that centres QTIBIPOC experiences. This project transforms Kate’s incisive humour and unapologetic critique of race, gender, and power into a visceral exploration of identity, using comedy to both engage and challenge audiences. The heart of “A Messiah Comes” is rooted in amplifying underrepresented perspectives. Queer and Black identities are often erased or misrepresented in mainstream comedy, making it difficult for audiences to see themselves reflected authentically. This project directly tackles that by placing viewers in Kate’s satirical, witty universe, where humour becomes a tool for self-expression and resistance. Through dynamic, animated environments and responsive narratives, participants embody the protagonist of Kate’s stories, experiencing first-hand the absurdities, confrontations, and ironies she navigates as a queer Black woman

Ben Carlin & Joseph Duggan

Playtime is an absurdist comedy XR show that merges live theatre and real-time digital puppetry, created using Pixel Puppets—an innovative approach developed by creative director Ben Carlin and producer Joe Duggan. Framed like ‘90s and early 2000s Saturday morning live children’s TV programmes such as SMTV Live and Live & Kicking, it captures the chaotic energy and spontaneity of these beloved shows. Charismatic presenters engage the live audience in light-hearted tasks and interactive segments, then introduce animated sketches—parodies and homages to classics like Button Moon, ReBoot, Rainbow, and Mr Benn. These animations are puppeteered in real time using XR technology and displayed via large-scale projection or LED walls, recreating the aesthetics of these favourites while satirising contemporary issues. By blending live theatre, real-time digital puppetry, virtual camera work, and audience interaction, Playtime creates an immersive hybrid experience that pioneers the future of entertainment.

Damian Bemben

You have one job - attempt to survive your shopping at the pinnacle of British technological degradation. The spirit of well-oiled bureaucratic efficiency lives on, now without any actual people!

WARNING - BY USING THE SELF-CHECKOUT MACHINE YOUR ENTIRE LIKENESS & DNA IS HEREBY OWNED BY CHECKOUTCORP IN PERPETUITY

For complaints, please take a ticket and join our virtual queue (estimated wait time: N/A)

Jamie Huxley & Adam Lieber

In a dislocated, fluid reality, two workers operate by night, creeping into attics, bedrooms and basements of sleeping people, to collect and record dreams, using a part-organic, part-mechanical machine – which then sends the dreams to be processed into packaging for consumer products.

The characters wear fluorescent, council-employee hi-vis bibs, making them invisible to the people whose dreams they’re collecting.

Their task is complicated by having to isolate the dreams from a fog of other airborne detritus – WhatsApp messages, texts, social media posts, commercials, bank transactions, lost analogue TV broadcasts, occasional prayers and the souls of those who have recently died in their sleep.

Their dynamic is ‘veteran and rookie’. An older, experienced ‘Collector’, and an assistant working their first night on the job. The Collector explains this fantastical process to the assistant (while expositing for the audience), with jaded resignation – which is met with the assistant’s marvel and curiosity.