Facility 111 is a surreal new audio play, written and performed live by Inge-Vera Lipsius. It takes place in darkness and asks audiences to visualise a series of poetic images in two different, but interconnected cities—one made of glass, another of sand. The piece takes the form of a (sci-fi) government experiment and asks: Are we, ultimately, less different from one another than we might think?

Lipsius is a Dutch-American director, theatre-maker, and writer. Last year, her play, Quad Loop—the first play on the doping scandal surrounding Kamila Valieva at the 2022 Winter Olympics—had its UK premiere at the Pushkin House in Bloomsbury, London. Lipsius made her directorial debut at The Merchant House, Amsterdam, with Paranoia (2022), her adaptation of the post-war novella by the classic Dutch author Willem Frederik Hermans. This year, she is working on further iterations of Facility 111 and Quad Loop in London and beyond.

Staging, text, performance: Inge-Vera Lipsius
Sound and video design: Sonny Sharp
Photography: René Lazový

Please note: The text contains descriptions of violence / crisis situations.