Blending physical theatre and simulated reality, Crisis Actor is an interactive performance where suffering is a vibe and resilience is celebrity.
There has been a disaster. Two actors hold our collective memory of the event. In an escalating competition for our empathy, they pit body and feeling against each other.
In a novel instance of ‘Second Screen Theatre’, audiences use their phones to shape the narrative in real time, voting on who survives as our chosen Actor.
Exploring the attention economy, marginalised bodies and victimhood as spectacle, Crisis Actor brings together conventions of contemporary performance, motion-capture technology, reality television and game design.
As comedic as it is unsettling, absurd as it is incisive, Crisis Actor sees us evolve into the Sims of forces greater than ourselves, ushering the uncanny valley into the realm of the everyday.
