About


Riptide create unique immersive and interactive theatrical experiences which transport you to another world. Audiences are swept through the narratives, spaces and cities in which our performances occur. 

Since 2014, Riptide have been making work which places the audience at the heart of the experience, combining innovative storytelling with digital technologies. These experiences may be as varied as encounters in secret corners of a confetti-filled nightclub, an intimate, pervasive and personalised performance for one or a guided journey through city spaces accompanied by smartphone and GPS technology.

Riptide’s work combines the artistry of immersive theatre, the thrill of being inside a real-life Black Mirror episode and the interactivity of your very own Truman Show. 

Our current series of work is called Lost Connections.

We don’t just break the fourth wall, we entirely demolish the other three walls too!

Discard all sense of where you think the ground should be. 

Give yourself up to the riptide, and see where it takes you.

The riptide will leave you unmoored and irreversibly changed.

WHY RIPTIDE?


Riptides are strong currents that pull you in new and unexpected directions.
Riptides are hidden and unpredictable. They can emerge at random locations; it is only when you are immersed in a riptide that you know that it is there.

Many of our performances occur in public spaces, passers-by may be oblivious to the fact you are caught in the riptide.

In our immersive experiences, you’ll be pulled through hidden spaces, cities and fractured narratives, unable to see how far the riptide extends. 

WHO WE HAVE WORKED WITH