Silent State
Redefining audience engagement through immersive experiences.
We were approached by Welsh National Opera to create an unique event that would form part of their outreach programme in Wrexham and would be featured as part of European Opera Day.
WNO were keen to take risks and create something disruptive and immersive that would create new conversations with their existing audiences and be attractive to potential new audiences. WNO wanted to connect to the community in an unique way and engage new audiences with Opera.
Working with writer Ben Gwalchmai and composer Tom Raybould, we created a pervasive game experience (or roaming theatre street game) called Silent State that played out on the streets of Wrexham taking participants on an unique journey through the town centre.
During the experience, players were introduced to a dystopia where all forms of music are banned. During the game they had to join the resistance and rise up against the governing state through musical interventions. These took the shape of secret dead drops, interactions with actors and unique operatic mash ups.
“Yello Brick are constantly exploring different ways to actively engage people. The team were efficient, endlessly creative and always keen to think outside the box.
”
Commissioned by Welsh National Opera.
