Apple of Discord - Can large scale immersive theatre come to Nottingham?

Hello potential volunteers :)

Cutting straight to the point, we have an opportunity to stage a massive immersive production in a central Nottingham location in Easter 2026.

This will be an immersive theatre production, similar in style to Punchdrunk, Phantom Peak, or other immersive experiences. It'll be set across multiple floors of a building and with a number of co-existing and looping story paths and gameplay opportunities for audiences.

We are looking for expressions of interest from any Nottingham performers and designers (actors, dancers, cabaret artists, circus performers, installation artists, etc) who would like to be part of the community company for the production. We will be devising the show along a pre-existing outline, but there is a lot of room for people to make their roles or scenes their own.

We are also looking for entertainment for a cabaret bar area for each evening, so if you think you can help programme that with us then please get in touch too.

Also, if you have a short performance or piece of work that you've been looking for a home for, this might the place for trying it out in front of different audiences if it fits with our overall story in some way. Get in touch to check, but we're very open to trying to make anything and everything fit, if we can.

This is a volunteer opportunity for now, with profit share if any is generated, but if the first one goes well, we'll be looking to get funding to continue them and this will involve paying people for their time. As a company, we are not making any money on the show either.

Immersive theatre in the UK is incredibly London-centric and we want to change that however we can. We think this might be the start of that change and, if anyone of you have always wanted to be a part of a large scale immersive production but have been unable to for whatever reason, maybe this might be the way to get involved?

Check that you're free against the key dates below and let us know you want to take part, and how, before the end of the year :) email us at chronicinsanitytheatre@gmail.com with the subject line APPLE OF DISCORD and we'll get back to you when we can!

Key dates you must be free for:

Saturday March 14th

Health and Safety Briefing

Monday March 23rd - Sunday March 29th

Rehearsal days (you don't need to be free all day and every day, depending on the size of your role)

Monday March 30th - Sunday April 5th

Performance evenings and free time in the day for continued rehearsals