Realplayer is a new, international performance initiative from Sarah Thom and Mat Hand.

We want to offer opportunities for togetherness and will place the audience at the centre of our process. We intend to engage with traditional and non-traditional arts audiences in places where people come together – village halls, community centres and theatres. We aim to explore community ritual, abandon and risk through the creation of large and small scale performances that are unpredictable, inclusive and accessible.

PARTY GAMES PARTY!
Party Games Party! is a highly interactive, anarchic performance event with a strong participatory element that invites people to play traditional party games in a joyfully immersive, performative environment.

Over the course of an evening, in a hall filled with bunting and balloons, a games master invites the audience to join in games remembered from childhood parties. There are spectators and players, winners and losers. The audience supports, cajoles and encourages. Some will triumph and some will fail. Each game has a winner’s ceremony. On the victory podium there are fanfares, applause, medals and prizes. Something to play for – a reason to win!
In post game interviews players and spectators get a chance to reveal all. We watch video replays of the action on large screens. In close up and slow motion we witness a winners victory, a losers defeat, moments of sheer abandon and the crowd’s reaction to it all.

Appetite says: Sounds like a giggle, we do like to get involved at Appetite and being able to influence the outcome of a show whilst participating as an audience member sounds like great fun!

Party Games Party! is being funded, produced and developed in collaboration with Arts Council England, Appetite (Creative People & Places Stoke-on-Trent) and Norwich Arts Centre.