Squeeze Box presents
BOXED!
What space is left for humanity?
Be as ready as you can be to face tests, baffling forms and ridiculous challenges to satisfy a point-based system, before the algorithm takes over completely! Within this bizarre and uncanny labyrinth of waiting lists, bleary-eyed caseworkers and tangling red tape, the all-encompassing System is just getting started.
BOXED! is a live multimedia portal into the joy, humour, and resilience of disabled people… yet something dark lurks at the end of the corridor. Experience an absurd, multisensory, interactive, promenade-performance with escape-room-vibes, where our very sense of who we are is pushed to the limit…
If we ever finally get through the eerie waiting room limbo, can we survive the onslaught of questions and accusations? And what comes next? [You are number 243 in the queue].
Be part of a privatisation experiment where your name and identity dissolve into numbers and never-ending form-filling. Faceless names and nameless panels are all too eager to decide your worth. With the stakes increasingly higher and the hoops to jump through always shrinking, can we imagine a world where support is given based on what we need to thrive, not on how many boxes we can tick?
Within broken, dehumanising and arbitrary systems, BOXED! creates a shared space for community and offers a moment for hope and true care.
U18 and Senior Citizen (60+) get £12 tickets.
Read more about the show on Hugh’s Blog!
Practical Information
- All shows are Relaxed. You can make noise, eat, take a break or leave whenever you need.
- This performance has interactive elements. You can choose to not interact, but everyone will be invited to move through the building.
- The venue is step free and wheelchair accessible. More access info here, and parking info here.
- BSL: some integrated BSL throughout. Fully signed performance at 7pm, 21/05.
- Support for blind, low or partial vision: audio description is available on request. Please let us know when you buy a ticket and one of the creative team will support you.
- 2 dedicated Support & Wellbeing staff members will be present throughout the show.
- A visual story guide will be available. This will give you more detail about what will happen during the show.
- There will be a quiet zone available at all times.
- Items available to borrow: ear defenders, fidget toys, noise reduction headphones, sunglasses.
- Guide dog rest area.
- Clearly signposted spaces inside the venue.
BOXED! Is supported by Arts Council England, Exeter Northcott and The Media Workshop with QED productions. Find out more about the people who created this show here.
Squeeze Box has been on a 5 year deep and dynamic journey, collaborating with extraordinary live sound artists, performers, projection artists, writers, makers, access artists, directors and choreographers. We tell stories about disability, community and care and how fundamental human experiences are squeezed into tick-box-forms. Our process has taken us to various spaces including a barn in cultural Cockington, a bustling shop front-converted to creative hub, and the iconic Battersea Arts Centre.
Barnfield TheatreThis performance contains strong language and themes of disability, exclusion, dehumanisation, isolation, stress, and anger.
