Reviews for Parabolic Theatre:

"Ambitious, timely, and emotionally satisfying" The Stage

"The ultimate immersive experience" Upper Circle

"Feels so real you can almost taste it" Everything Theatre

"A show that's genuinely different with every group of people it sees... it feels like time travel" Broadway World

Our Work

Make Do and Mend

As Parabolic Theatre rebuilds after one of its most difficult and destructive periods in living memory, this season of work about beautiful things being made from limited resources sets a tone of hope triumphing in adversity.

The season will include a collection of wartime-inspired immersive pieces, some of which are brand new, and some of which had highly successful runs in London before the pandemic. The British Resistance Museum from Parabolic Theatre, Illicit Signals Bletchley from Mechanical Thought, Line of Fire from Cross-Stitch Theatre and Hidden Figures: WW2 from PartyGeek will all be part of Make Do and Mend. Further exciting shows from Parabolic Theatre as well as from companies that were to be at VAULT Festival will be announced in due course.

All of these shows will be presented at Parabolic's new home CRYPT

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Explore Our Previous Productions

We Have a Situation 2020 (online)	The House of Cenci Available to Play Now	Bridge Command Coming Soon	England Expects 2020 (online)
For King and Country 2018 & 2019	Morningstar 2017	Land of Nod 2015 & 2018

About

Parabolic Theatre has been at the forefront of fringe interactive experiences since 2016.

The work we make is beyond mere immersive spectacle and aims to tackle the social and political upheavals of our time, in creative and historically connected ways.

How would you deal with a large scale invasion, or influence a government in crisis, or approach a derelict ship floating in space?

Parabolic shows are highly interactive and responsive to audiences that choose to participate. We believe that audience agency is at the heart of what makes an experience immersive, and so we always try to offer the freedom to actively explore - interacting with the space, our performers and other audience members. Our audiences will always be given a purpose for being present within the show and have the capacity to influence the narrative and outcomes.

Led by Artistic Director, Owen Kingston, Parabolic welcomes a variety of artistic associates to collaborate on our shows and events, as writers, directors, designers and game masters.

Our work has recently been supported by the ACE/DCMS Culture Recovery Fund. Previous commissions have included Croydon Council, Croydonites Festival, and Aimhigher London.

If you are interested in working with us, or commissioning us, or you just want to find out more about our work, then please feel free to get in touch via our contact form below.