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Delighted to announce that @project.1961 has been awarded 50k EXPAND funding from @immersivearts_uk to further develop our project Sound and Fury.
We are incredibly honoured to be one of the 142 projects across the UK receiving support this funding round. This grant wil allow us to build upon the work we did with the previous round of EXPERIMENT funding from Immersive Arts UK to take our vision for hybrid, immersive theatre to the next level.
What is Sound and Fury?
Following our work on Grand Theft Hamlet, we are diving back into the digital void to reimagine Shakespeare’s Macbeth within a virtual gaming world.
This isn’t just a play—it’s a collision of live performance and gaming:
⚔️ Hybrid Reality: Performed simultaneously on a physical stage and inside an online game.
🕹️ Audience as Players: Whether in-person or remote via Discord, audiences become active “players” in the drama, shaping scenes through collective “flashmob” actions.
🔕 Radical Accessibility: As a deaf artist-led project, we are embedding BSL, creative captioning, and haptic technology into the very fabric of the art, not just as add-ons, but as expressive storytelling tools.
This project explores what “liveness” truly means when code and flesh perform side-by-side. We are so grateful to Immersive Arts for believing in this “hunch” that theatre and gaming are two sides of the same coin.
Huge thanks to the partners making this possible: Arts Council England, Immersive Arts UK
Check out the full funding announcement and explore the other incredible projects in our bio
We are incredibly honoured to be one of the 142 projects across the UK receiving support this funding round. This grant wil allow us to build upon the work we did with the previous round of EXPERIMENT funding from Immersive Arts UK to take our vision for hybrid, immersive theatre to the next level.
What is Sound and Fury?
Following our work on Grand Theft Hamlet, we are diving back into the digital void to reimagine Shakespeare’s Macbeth within a virtual gaming world.
This isn’t just a play—it’s a collision of live performance and gaming:
⚔️ Hybrid Reality: Performed simultaneously on a physical stage and inside an online game.
🕹️ Audience as Players: Whether in-person or remote via Discord, audiences become active “players” in the drama, shaping scenes through collective “flashmob” actions.
🔕 Radical Accessibility: As a deaf artist-led project, we are embedding BSL, creative captioning, and haptic technology into the very fabric of the art, not just as add-ons, but as expressive storytelling tools.
This project explores what “liveness” truly means when code and flesh perform side-by-side. We are so grateful to Immersive Arts for believing in this “hunch” that theatre and gaming are two sides of the same coin.
Huge thanks to the partners making this possible: Arts Council England, Immersive Arts UK
Check out the full funding announcement and explore the other incredible projects in our bio
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