PRESENT MISCHIEF
PIGEON FOOL
WORLD PREMIERE
A theatrical Turing Test to pursue humanness amidst the AI Revolution. Premiering at Queensland Museum for World Science Festival Brisbane 2024.
SCAREDY HOUSE
WORLD PREMIERE
A reverse haunted house for young people to confront the darkness within. A bold new work for audiences aged 8-12, and their families. Premiering at Metro Arts.
TRUTHMACHINE
ON TOUR
A working polygraph test for a room full of strangers to explore truth in a post-truth world. Our multi-award winning theatrical social experiment has been touring since 2019.
Counterpilot is an award-winning collective of interdisciplinary artists based in Brisbane, Australia.
Together, we create interactive performance works - activating audiences with new technology, rich design, and transmedia storytelling. Counterpilot seeks to transform the familiar, juxtaposing rich fictional worlds against a backdrop of the everyday.
By subverting real social circumstances, we co-opt our participants as authentic performers. In this way we are harnessing what we believe to be the most exciting thing about theatre - the live audience. Our works enable participants to observe themselves responding in real ways to hyper-real situations.
We seek to provoke change through acts of trouble, mischief and low-key chaos. We play in the space between people, and we poke at the tensions that bind us.
Counterpilot is directed by Nathan Sibthorpe, with Core Creatives Christine Felmingham & Mike Willmett. Since 2022, we have been the Company-in-Residence at Metro Arts.
”AN ENIGMATIC LIVE ART CONSPIRACY WHICH ALL THE COOL KIDS WILL WANT TO JOIN...
NO ONE ELSE IS MAKING WORK QUITE LIKE THIS.”
- THE AGE
Mischief RECALLED…
ESCAPE FROM MONOTONY
Corporate purgatory becomes a reverse escape room in this surprising exhibit at the Museum of Brisbane. An interactive installation toying with escapism and the anti-work movement.
ADRIFT
Strangers in the dark, isolated by headphones - following instructions to find one another… Winner of The Judges’ Award at the 2022 Matilda Awards.
NOT A CULT*
A pop-up automated flash mob to satirise the unrelenting optimism of the Australian Dream. A playful experience for adventurous audiences in a public space.
