New Diorama: work_from_home

“I really loved Nathan Ellis’ work.txt at the Vault Festival earlier this year, and this online theatrical experience is a digital version of that innovative show that had no actors, only a playing audience. It was a work in progress and it should have been playing at the Incoming Festival this week but instead it is being reimagined on screen. The really cheeky thing about it both in the real word and on Zoom is that it gets the audience to do all the work even as it questions the nature and function of work. Like all layered shows I imagine its meaning will have changed over the last 12 weeks. When I saw the show it was in the context of a busy, over-worked world where nobody ever sleeps. Now it will take place in the context of a world that pressed the pause button and is struggling to get going again.”