Fancy half-hour of a sonic theatre expertise in a transport container, The War Inside can see you proper at VAULT Festival
“Welcome to the Great Immunity Army”
Through its programming, the VAULT Festival can take you to some unusual locations however it might additionally take you to some precise unusual locations, akin to a transport container on the finish of Lower Marsh. There you’ll discover the Void and contained in the Void is a sequence of womb-like pods the place audiences can indulge within the sonic theatre expertise that’s Camille Dawson’s The War Inside.
You’re invited to sink into beanbags, wrap up in blankets, don headphones and an eyemask (it’s arguably site-specific slightly than absolutely immersive) earlier than this 30 minute audio journey begins. The conceit of this work-in-progress is that we’re experiencing it from inside the physique of Marnie, a younger girl whose analysis of bowel illness rocks her world.
From the second she first spots blood in her poo, Marnie is aware of that her life goes to have to vary. But Dawson’s perspective attracts us all inside to inform the story as a lot from the standpoint of the immune system as Marnie herself. Thus we meet organs, blood cells and the regimented approach wherein they (ought to) work to discover one thing of the reality of what it’s prefer to endure from a hidden sickness.
Given the subject material at hand, The War Inside is surprisingly humorous and that in itself seems like a win, continual illness hardly ever will get something however the hand-wringingly terrible therapy. And Dawson’s efficiency together with fellow voice actors Sophie LK Winter and Nathan Queeley-Dennis, mixed with Paul Freeman’s enveloping sound design and Cristina Ottonello’s inviting manufacturing design, make it an intriguingly completely different kind of present.