SHIFT

East 15 Acting School - BA Acting & Community Engagement,Clifftown Theatre, February 2026

Gaming.
Discover new worlds without leaving your house.

SHIFT is a wild ride through the world of online gaming, the distraction economy, and the monetisation of virtual spaces. It explores what happens when we exist in multiple worlds simultaneously, shifting between dysfunctional reality and surreal spaces where dreams can come true. In these liberated lands, players explore a menu of diverse experiences and role play situations, building dream homes and gardens, trying out new adventures and identities, and escaping limits of mortality and morality.

This verbatim production uses real life interviews, and found text to explore the liminal space between worlds where the self is fragmented and agency is renegotiated. A rational escape from an uncertain world, or a dangerous game of pretend?

Creative & Technical Team

Written by: The Company

Directed by: Sarah Kim Fielding

Lighting & Sound Design: Steve Owens

Costume Design: Sarah Melville

Set Design: Carlos Moral Reis

Fight Directors: Lilian DeClair, Roni Elson

Production Manager: Steve Owens

Stage Manager: Charlotte Windley

Assistant Stage Managers: Lauren Everson, James Traske, Wren Davi Rubin, Sophia Dawkins

Wardrobe Supervisor: Ali Manners

Wardrobe Assistant: Andrea Wingrove-Dunn