Doppelgangster is an international performance collective creating bold, site-responsive work at the intersection of theatre, live art, film and sound. Collaborating with festivals, universities and cultural institutions, the work responds to urgent global challenges.
THE ANARCHY (1138-53)
A SOUND LIKE THUNDER
DOPPELGANGSTER’S ATLANTIS
GHOST TOWN
ESCAPE/THERE IS NO ESCAPE
EVERYTHING MIGHT GO
COLD WAR
EVERYBODY LOSES
DOPPELGANGSTER’S TITANIC
PUNTILA/MATTI
THE ETERNITY OF THE WORLD
CHOKE ME
TREEFXXXERS
RADIO PLAGUE
BAD REPUTATION
HOT!HOT!HOT! FESTIVAL
BABY
A DEATH SENTENCE
THE NATURAL DISASTER
WAKE ME WHEN IT’S OVER
MARIE ROGET
DISINFORMATION BOOTH
OXYGEN SUPPORT
THE 11TH HOUR
DOPPELGANGSTER (DEAD)
“WILDLY
EXPERIMENTAL
AND WILDLY
ENTERTAINING”
DAILY REVIEW
“YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF TO SEE THIS” ☆☆☆☆☆
THE MUSIC
“ORIGINAL, UNQUESTIONABLY EFFECTIVE… GRIPPING AND INTELLIGENT.”
PLACING THE ANTHROPOCENE
“Theatrical
Saboteurs.”
THE AGE
HYPERREALISM & PUNK ROCK
In a cheap motel room, two losers eat poisoned snow cones and watch you through a drone. The flavour is synthetic, the air is toxic, and participation becomes ritual. Part hyperreal theatre, part digital installation, COLD WAR stages surveillance, complicity and collapse through a live choreography of watching and being watched.
SLOW AUDIO
POSTDRAMATICS
A story is told. Then retold. Then undone. BAD REPUTATION is a slow audio performance about rumour, distortion and repetition, created during lockdown with students in Melbourne and Sheffield. Inspired by Three Skeleton Key, it turns collaborative listening into a method for inhabiting the space between truth and noise.
CRITICAL FICTIONS FOR AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE
This is where the palace was. You’ll need to imagine a palace. ATLANTIS fractures Plato’s allegory of hubris and catastrophe into live sound, broken narrative and speculative performance. Doom metal, surf rock and philosophical ruins combine in a chaotic meditation on the end of nations and the lure of the wave.
ENVIRONMENTAL DRAMATURGY
Water floods a shipping container. A car drives through the audience. Fires start. The band plays on. TITANIC restages a familiar disaster as contemporary ritual. Performed at COP21 in Paris and beyond, it combines spectacle, satire and steel to ask who gets saved, who gets blamed, and who never boarded.
BREATH AND RESISTANCE
The air is thick with history and nitrogen dioxide. CHOKE ME is an unflinching performance made in response to air pollution in Sheffield. Combining theatre, movement and data, the work explores breath as politics and stillness as resistance. It brings ecological crisis into the body and holds it there.
What Doppelgangster Do
ENTERTAINMENT
Despite centuries of tradition, Doppelgangster steadfastly refuses to use bears, trained or otherwise. Particularly not polar bears. Or koala bears, which in truth are not even bears. If there are bears, they’re probably metaphors… maybe we would use Pandas, but only because of the make-up.
EPHEMERA
Doppelgangster’s work will not go up in value when its members die. In fact, a plague of moths will black out the sun, the plants will turn to dust and tickets are limited.
ENIGMAS
Doppelgangster may or may not include a disruptive force, a pilgrim lost at sea or a regular working class, mortgaged, hard-working, working family. That said, Doppelgangster may be nobody at all.
