Idea bank

Forms that need no cast and no set.

Who are you?

Who are you?

Live
Two strangers face to face answer a hundred written questions about each other. No words.

Pairs of strangers sit across from each other for seventy minutes. Each pair receives sealed envelopes with written questions and answers them with eye contact alone. There are no actors and no stage: the room, two chairs and a stranger are the whole production.

A quiet room · 70 min · pairs

Magic Garden, Zürich

Visit whoareyou.citf.cy ↗
Living Score

Living Score

Concept
The audience becomes an orchestra of voices, guided by text scores, light and one facilitator.

A performance-meditation inspired by Deep Listening. Text scores are projected on the walls; the audience answers with voice, breath and silence, and a facilitator shapes the room like a conductor. Nobody is on stage because everyone is.

A room with walls to project on · no cast

Ekaterina Vasileva, Buenos Aires

Visit ekaterina-vasileva.com ↗
60 Strangers

60 Strangers

Concept
Twelve rounds of five minutes. Pairs sit face to face in headphones, then everyone changes partner.

A speed-friending form of Who are you?. Seventy people wear headphones; a single voice asks a deep question, two people answer each other, and after five minutes the room rotates. By the end each person has met twelve strangers, one honest question at a time.

Headphones · 70 people · 90 min

A speed-friending form of Who are you?

Table for Strangers

Table for Strangers

Concept
Thirty players round a table with a sum of money on it must decide together what to do with it.

A round table, a real sum of money and thirty strangers. The rule is simple: every decision needs every signature. An audience watches the group negotiate, split, trust and betray in real time. The performance is whatever they decide.

A round table · 30 players and an audience

After Kaleider, “The Money”

Visit Kaleider, The Money ↗
Remote X

Remote X

Existing format
Fifty people in identical headphones walk through the city, led by a single voice. The city becomes the stage.

An audio walk by Rimini Protokoll. Fifty audience members, each in headphones, are guided through a city by a synthetic voice and move together as a silent crowd. Ordinary streets, squares and buildings turn into a stage, and passers-by become the cast.

Headphones · a route · 50 people

Rimini Protokoll

Visit rimini-protokoll.de ↗
Danceoke

Danceoke

Existing format
A hundred people copy a choreographer's moves to pop videos on a screen. Collective euphoria.

A participatory dance party. A screen plays pop clips with a choreographer leading the moves, and a hundred strangers copy them together. No experience needed, no audience: everyone in the room is the show.

A screen · a leader · a large room

Seen at Edinburgh Fringe and in clubs

Have a form of your own?

Propose a format