Doublethink
Two completely unrehearsed ‘guest’ performers (different people every night) stand on either side of a wall and, each oblivious of the other, follow the same instructions from a ‘voice off’. The audience is able to see both sides, and consequently the differences in their reactions.

The fascination of this minimal setup is twisted mischievously when two scripted characters emerge who, within a fiction of their own, pass concealed instructions to the two guests. Through increasing virtuosity and sleight of hand, the guests seemingly gain control; it becomes difficult to know where the commands are coming from or indeed, where the power lies. This highly unusual process reveals an analogy of inner life: two people depicted as four, each with a rehearsed and unrehearsed side to their ‘selves’, whose attempts to understand and communicate draw them toward a magnificent and hilarious chaos - Doublethink is an epic story-experiment about freedom, the farce of self knowledge and the times we prefer being told what to do.