Call Cutta in a Box

This paradigm-shifting piece of interactive one-on-one theatre premiered in Berlin in 2008, and is the perfect introduction to the kind of performance and quality one can expect from the New Performance Festival…

This paradigm-shifting piece of interactive one-on-one theatre premiered in Berlin in 2008, and is the perfect introduction to the kind of performance and quality one can expect from the New Performance Festival.

Call Cutta in a Box, described as ‘an intercontinental phone play’ requires audience participation on a whole new level: you, the sole member of the audience, go into a room and find a ringing phone.

Once answered, you begin a journey into the complex realities of this increasingly globalized world – at once larger and smaller than ever before.

Using ubiquitous everyday technology, the team from Rimini Protokoll challenge your perceptions about theatre, the fourth wall, and ordinary interactions, leaving you breathlessly wondering what might happen next.

With only six more days to see this both bizarre and delightful piece of theatre, I suggest you grab a group of friends, and go – the post-theatre chats will be as never before, as each of you will have attended a different performance.

By Kate Hannah
21 February 2012.