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Extra People

by Ant Hampton

An automated, voice-directed system borrowed from warehouse management changes voices and becomes a child. The great void of a large and dormant theatre is turned into a 'space for production'. An audience are cast as extras, given flashlights and high-visibility vests, and cycled through the ‘production’ in groups of fifteen: 30 mins in the seats, 30 on stage. The concatenated, synthetic and at times melancholic voice guiding them (via binaural recordings in their headphones) seems to come from speakers in the room, audible to everyone.

Written and directed by Ant Hampton
sound design and composition - Sam Britton 
editing / system design / tech director - Hugh Roche Kelly

Extra People was commissioned by EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA)
with coproduction from Kaaitheater (Brussels) and Malta Festival (Posnan)
supported by the Culture Program of the European Commission via the House on Fire network
Extra support from French Institute Alliance Française (NYC), Kingsfountain (Paris)