Witness the human stories of Austerity Britain in this arresting mixed reality installation. 

In 2016, the UN found that “grave or systemic violations” of the rights of disabled people were taking place throughout the UK. Wearing a mixed reality headset, you will enter a striking, holographic gallery that lays bare the consequences when state safety nets fail. 

This powerful installation combines verbatim testimony with the skills of theatre/XR director Sacha Wares and the in-depth knowledge of John Pring, editor of Disability News Service. It was a finalist in the XR History Awards, nominated for Best Digital Innovation at the UK Theatre Awards and won International Documentary Festival Amsterdam’s (IDFA) Best Immersive Production

Co-produced by English Touring Theatre, Trial & Error Studio and National Theatre, in association with Young Vic.

Content Guidance

Museum of Austerity uses mixed reality headsets and contains material that some people may find distressing or challenging to engage with. For further information on what to expect please take a look at the Visitor Guide.

Age recommendation: 18+

Running Time: 45 mins in total including headset familiarisation

Click here for full visitor information

Through the Cracks is drama like you’ve never experienced it before, through the lens of augmented reality.

Download the free app now and transport yourself to a world where reality meets fantasy, where cracks open up right beneath your feet, revealing glimpses of extraordinary stories playing out below.

In Time – is available now. A queer love story woven through the fabric of time travel.

Brought to you by English Touring Theatre and Office of Everyone.

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Strange stories for stranger times. With the contemporary world being the troubled, complicated, messy place it is – difficult enough for us to wrap our conscious minds around – we want to interrogate the ugly underbelly of what haunts our unconscious minds.

F**ked Up Bedtime Stories (for Adults) consists of 7 stories from 7 writers, read by leading actors and put out as a podcast and listened to by audiences right before bedtime, all exorcising different and unique horrors from our world and from our lives.

Commissioned and Produced by ETT

Writers in the series include Javaad Alipoor, Jade Anouka, Lydia Ayame Hiraide, Mei Mei Macleod, Sabrina Mahfouz, Grace Savage, Testament and Jamael Westman, with more to be announced.

Mixed is a monologue project which revolves around representation of mixed-race identities. The 2021 census showed a further 40% increase in the number of people identifying as being from ‘mixed/multiple ethnic groups’ since 2011. And yet this burgeoning demographic isn’t really reflected in the stories we see on stage, where stories around mixed-race experiences are often generalised. In response to this gap in our industry, Director Ben Quashie came up with Mixed as a project focused on curating stories from a wide range of mixed race experiences and imagination of artists around the UK.  

Dramaturgs on the series include Kane Husbands (Artistic Director of The PappyShow) and Beth Kapila (Artistic Associate at Tara Theatre).

Mixed will be published and made available to the public and Drama students in 2023.

Adult Children was developed for the Donmar Warehouse by Trial and Error Studio, Ella Hickson and ScanLAB Projects from [Layer], an original podcast commission by ETT and Storyglass for their series That Podcast.

Adult Children is previewing in the London Film Festival Expanded strand of the BFI London Film Festival 2021.

Adult Children is an Official Selection for the inaugural Belfast XR Festival 2022, taking place on Wed 9th Nov at The Black Box – scroll down for ticket links.

Content and Accessibility information can be found HERE

Contains the following themes: Reference to a Covid-19 related death.