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Quick Summary of Available Works
From mid 2024, Counterpilot has six signature works in repertoire, all available for touring:
Truthmachine (2019): easy to tour, our notorious working lie detector test…
Pigeon Fool (2024): also easy to tour, theatrical Turing Test playing with AI…
Not a Cult* (2023): easy to tour, pop-up activation for outdoor festival hub sites…
Crunch Time (2018): ambitious theatrical dining experience…
Adrift (2022): ambitious immersive theatre experience…
Scaredy House (2024): haunting immersive theatre for 7-10yr olds…
Truthmachine
Would you take a lie detector test in a room full of strangers?
The multi award-winning social experiment —watch on or be interrogated with real biometric sensors as we seek out truth in a post-truth world. Truthmachine is designed for touring and, with all tech included, it can be presented almost anywhere; meeting rooms, galleries, and more.
Touring Party: 2-3pax
Audience Capacity: 12pax
Duration: 30mins
Up to 50 shows per week
Not a Cult*
A pop-up automated flash mob to satirise the unrelenting optimism of the Australian Dream. Designed to activate outdoor spaces and public festival hubs with acts of disconcerting joy and rabid Australiana.
Touring Party: 2-3pax
Audience Capacity: 24pax
Duration: 30mins
Up to 20 shows per week
Crunch Time
Recipient of the Lord Mayor’s Award for Best New Australian Work (2018), Crunch Time is Counterpilot’s iconic live art dinner party with a twist. An intimate interactive experience featuring guest performers co-opted from positions of public leadership.
Touring Party: 3-4pax
Audience Capacity: 12pax
Duration: 2.5hr
Up to 6 shows per week
CRUNCH TIME runs over 2.5 hours and unfolds differently each time. Instead of a full archival recording, the above video walks through the performance from a range of angles, with insights into the audience experience.
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Adrift
In the cold, damp, darkness - we tell stories to make sense of a world that never did make much sense… Our most ambitious work of immersive theatre, Adrift excavates loneliness through togetherness by enlisting participants as co-creators of exciting tabletop worlds. Recipient of the Judge’s Award for pushing artistic boundaries (2022 Matilda Awards).
Touring Party: 5pax
Audience Capacity: 24pax
Duration: 1.5hr
Up to 11 shows per week
Pigeon Fool
What does it mean to be human in an age of artificial intelligence?
A theatrical Turing Test meets Game Show, exploring humanness in the midst of the AI revolution. Developed in collaboration with local AI experts, this interactive tabletop theatre work blends cunning algorithms and virtual beings, to put its audience to the test.
Touring Party: 3pax
Audience Capacity: 16pax
Duration: 40mins
Up to 40 shows per week
In Pigeon Fool, Counterpilot interrogates humanness in the AI revolution by subjecting participants to a theatrical Turing Test. This project draws its influence from our critically acclaimed performance work TRUTHMACHINE, which involves a theatrical polygraph test (complete with working lie detector and high-tech digital design) to explore ideas of truth in a post-truth world. TRUTHMACHINE effectively embodies big philosophical ideas by playfully challenging its audience to experience an appropriated lie detector test in a theatrical context alongside exposition and anecdotes.
With Pigeon Fool, we are adopting key learnings from TRUTHMACHINE to craft a new short-form interactive performance work that enacts scientific social experiments with theatrical panache. The work will be supported with rich technical design, surprising gameplay, and unexpected gestures of the surreal.
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>> More Info (including Production Photos)
Watch Nathan Sibthorpe discuss the work with Benjamin Law on ABC’s Compass:
Scaredy House
An immersive theatre work encouraging families to work together to illuminate their worries in a game of slight frights and night lights. Best suited for children aged 7-10 and their adults, this work utilises interactive audio design, projection trickery, and collaborative shadow puppetry facilitated by our blanket fort’s performer to lead the audience in disarming their own fears and anxieties.
Scaredy House is commissioned by Metro Arts and premiered in June 2024.
Touring Party: 3pax
Audience Capacity: 55pax
Duration: 60mins
Up to 8 shows per week