PRESENT MISCHIEF
PIGEON FOOL
WORLD PREMIERE
A theatrical Turing Test meets Game Show to prove your humanness amidst the AI Revolution. Premiered at Queensland Museum for World Science Festival Brisbane 2024.
SCAREDY HOUSE
RETURN SEASONS
A reverse haunted house for young people to confront the darkness within. A bold new work for audiences aged 8-12, and their families. Returning to Redland Performing Arts Centre, January 2025.
adrift
return seasons
Strangers in the dark, isolated by headphones, following instructions to find eachother… The award winning performance returns with Cairns Festival & Brisbane Festival 2024.
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 & Elizabeth Hunt. 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.
truthmachine
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.
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.
