Come Rest in Chaos

Using live performance, film and illusion, Shivaangee Agrawal’s Come Rest in Chaos created four distinct sensory worlds inside the theatre, amongst which four performers dance.

The four sensory worlds inside the theatre are inhabited by four performers and roaming audience members. It was an “immersive” performance transporting the audience into another location, time and atmosphere. It required a coherent and rigorous design across spatialised soundscapes, live vocalisation, costume, characterisation, projections, film and crucially, how audience members are using the space over the course of the show. 

Come Rest in Chaos features four performers, who dance sometimes beside the audience, sometimes across from the audience and sometimes around the audience. Over the course of the performance, they turn from strangers to companions to friends to community and back again. 

It is a multi-sensory world where the audience’s agency is dramaturgically central to the work. As an audience member, you roam through the space and make choices about where you want to experience each part from.