facility 111: A government experiment

25th & 26th February

A surreal new audio play, written and performed 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?

Inge-Vera 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.

ticket information

Performance dates: 25th & 26th February 2025

Times: 8.30pm

Tickets: £10