“Welcome to The Riot Ballet – an immersive, interactive theatre/game event. The experience begins online, then becomes live in a cluster of immersive performance spaces, where you encounter characters, scenes, instructions, puzzles, technologically-responsive environments… and other audience members. Don’t worry – you may choose to participate to whatever extent you’re comfortable, or to remain a passive observer. Your task is to avert a potential riot before it explodes. As The Riot Ballet progresses, a narrative emerges in fragments: the government works hard to make citizens feel heard and represented… but do their polished messages mask corruption and authoritarian motives? Protestors emerge to challenge the government. Are these protestors’ actions as selfless as they seem? How far are they willing to go to make their point? Journalists report the action as it unfolds. Are they unbiased or are they twisting facts to support a hidden agenda? The show culminates in a (safe but spectacular) burgeoning riot, where your actions in the moment determine just how intense the riot will become.”

Martin Andrews
Noah Drew
Shannon Holmes
Shawn Ketchum Johnson
Catalina Medina
Emer O’Toole

Alyssa Angelucci-Wall, Beatriz Carvajal, Naomi Cormier, Scarlet Fountain, Lina Herrera, Charles Johnson, Miles Kelly-Baxter, Andrés Lagos, Jonathan Lessard, Megan Magisano, Andrei Mamal, Jamie Nesbitt, Elisabeth Nyveen, Rafael Peñuela, Luisa Roa, Claudia Rocío Rodríguez, Squinky, Alessandra Tom, Angelique Wilkie, Olivia Woods

“I think the immersive experience brings a real feeling of empowerment and agency to those who are going to experience it. But it’s also a wake-up call for audiences; this is happening and you are a part of it,” - Elisabeth Nyveen

Header photo by: Alessandra Tom
Gallery photos by: IO Monolith