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Quick Summary of Available Works
From 2024, Counterpilot is making four of our signature works available for touring:
Truthmachine (2019): easy to tour, our notorious working lie detector test…
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…
And we’re also working towards premiere of two new works:
Pigeon Fool: theatrical Turing Test to explore humanness in the AI revolution…
Scaredy House: for children & family audiences, a “reverse haunted house”…
Truthmachine
Would you take a lie detector test with a stranger?
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.
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Quick Stats: 12pax capacity // 30min duration // 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.
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Quick Stats: 24pax capacity // 30min duration // 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.
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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Quick Stats: 12pax capacity // 2.5hr duration // up to 6 shows per week // local guest performers
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).
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Quick Stats: 24pax capacity // 1.5hr duration // up to 11 shows per week
Works-In-Progress
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PIGEON FOOL
What does it mean to be human in an age of artificial intelligence?
What do we have left that can’t be simulated, recreated or taken away by the machines?
And is it just that the robots are becoming more human, or are we humans becoming more robotic?
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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SCAREDY HOUSE
An interactive “reverse haunted house” for young audiences exploring social anxiety... an immersive black box theatre work encouraging families to work together to illuminate their worries in a game of slight frights and night lights. Goosebumps meets Minecraft with an existential twist…
Scaredy House is commissioned by Metro Arts and is currently in early stages of creative development. This work will premiere in June 2024 and be available for touring presentation from late 2024.