As a storm begins to brew, the audience each receive a pair of headphones and are seated in front of a large white screen... 'There have been suicides in your building, and there are voices in your head, guiding you through your memories and accompanying you on your day. Your very strange day.' (NY Times)

Fresh from runs at Fierce Festival and PS122, Whisper asks the audience to question ‘what is real’ in a world of increasing technological sophistication. Each audience member is given a set of headphones through which they hear the voices of three live performers narrating a fictional walk through a fictional city.

Not only are the three performers narrating a walk that switches between the ‘here and now’ of the story and ‘dream-world’ of memory, but they are also creating a fully immersive sound environment through the use of a sound technique called foley. Foley is a technique employed in film, where a sound artist adds sounds to a film after the film has been shot, thereby creating a hyper-realistic world of sound for the film.

Written and directed by Peter S. Petralia
Lighting Designer Rebecca M.K. Makus
Music Philip Reeder
Performers: Gillian Lees, Adam Nash and Andrew Westerside

'The mixture of foley soundscapes and the strange melding and disconnect between image and sound sucks you in.'

Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

'An intriguing brush with altered reality... poetic. And the production flirts with the feel of a supernatural, psychological thriller.'

New York Times

'Whisper cleverly mines the dramatic tension between ‘reality’ and the seductive power of technology.'

Backstage

'Daring, experimental, and theatrically engaging.'

Theatremania

'Breathtakingly original...one of the more adventurous, innovative, and worthy cutting-edge groups that I know of.'

The New York Theatre Experience