Imp Fest
Hornsey Town Hall, London | 2015

The Story

BARK invites you on an eight part live-constructed sci-fi adventure in a dystopian future where sound and silence dictate life and death.

Welcome to CAGE, city against green environments. Oxygen has been privatized and the machine that supports life on earth produces a sound so piercing, to hear it is death. Five characters’ lives intersect as everything falls apart. They, and you, the audience, must decide, shall they live in silence forever or face a mortality filled with the sounds of life?

The Structure

Creating haunting soundscapes and stripped back storytelling, Performance A is BARK's first experiment in live-construction told in 8 episodes where the audience choose the direction the story will take.

Situated in the intersection between devising and long-form improvisation, this episodic narrative structure uses looping, live-constructed sound and bodies in space to tell an epic, sci-fi story.

Performed & Created by BARK:
Tierra Bonser | Ana Diaz | Sam Howard | Ruth Adams | Jennifer Bates

What is live-construction? 

Live-construction is a performance style and devising technique developed by BARK in 2015.  Mashing up devised performance with improvisation, live-construction is about building and arranging performance live before our audiences, tailoring content in a flexible and responsive way that is specific to the individuals experiencing it.

This type of performance thrives in the unknown and unplanned, holding audiences at the core of the work in both process and performance by consistently reconsidering the extent, meaning, and experience of liveness within a shared process of creation.