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A digitally interactive performance in which the audience explores links between objects and the characters’ memories.

4pm and 7pm daily, Thurs 23rd - Sun 26th Feb. Duration: 1hr.

Part of the VAULT festival: www.thevaultfestival.com

Book Online: www.thevaultfestival.com/products-page/week-three/broken-loops/

Take a step into Fairmile social club beneath Waterloo station. Stuck in the 1990’s, tatty décor fills the walls and dirty ashtrays sit unused on the tables. It is here and now that Cheryl and Rose meet, a mother and daughter reunited after many years apart. Their memories lay dormant inside objects and space, rising to the surface through a subtle triggering of sensors. Audience members seek out and find them, existing with the characters on a journey of rediscovery into familial bonds, dark secrets, and the nature of memory itself. Take the step, Enter the Broken Loop.

Preview shows supported by The RVHFBroken Loops is an experimental exploration of memory, meaning and identity: an original performance style that combines digital interactive technology and theatre in new ways, providing a window into the memories of its characters. The narrative plays out inside Fairmile, an old social club the characters once attended when Steve, the father, worked at the affiliated Network Rail. It is an old workingman’s club, untouched since the 1990’s, and is filled with the past events of the two characters. The audience exists alongside the characters inside a world of darts, bingo games, cheesy music and heavy drinking. Forgotten history takes Rose and Cheryl on an emotional journey, revealing family secrets both bleak and beautiful. Broken Loops examines a British working class culture experiencing a sense of loss in its identity.

Rolemop have developed a unique production that relies on the interaction and involvement of audience members to influence the order and progression of the narrative using a series of audiovisual triggers that show memories as projected video. The narrative is shaped by the selections the audience make, choosing a memory strands associated with either a good, bad or indifferent emotion or revelation. It is the audience who chooses which comes next, the audience who learns how each triggered memory affects the character’s responses. It is they who decide the path of each unique performance. And ultimately their choices which decide which of three endings occur.

In this developing tale the characters can only interact when they have remembered. Without a shared history they have no common future. They must explore the ghosts of the past, facing the actions and consequences of unchallenged events. Broken Loops is an exploration of the workings of memory itself, how we reform and reconfigure memories through the telling and retelling of stories, and how, collectively, we are constantly re-shaping and re-forming the events of the past.WWW.ROLEMOP.ORG.UK