(Use headphones for best viewing experience. In the live performance, there were 4 different channels randomly allocated to audience. The edited version here is only the English (male track) version.)

multi-channel performance
a theatre experience of parallel narratives and intersensory perception

Claustrophobia is a journey through togetherness and solitude, across the realms of installation, soundscape, text and theatre. The performance is a paradox in dialogue: intimacy and claustrophobia. It is not only devised as content, but also developed as experiential form in the performance. Audience sitting collectively together in the theatre, yet isolated by headphones for the individual listening experience. The composition of soundtracks based on text, recorded sounds and a wider world of musicality offers a visual and pictorial soundscape that expands the imagination to the storytelling. It seems to be one's dreams yet another's memories, or indeed the collective reality of hope and amnesia of the city.

In this production, installation meets performance to create multi-layered narratives. Installation here reclaims its rule as a parallel means of storytelling in theatre, inviting spectators into the symbolic subconscious world of the creator and performers. Installation and soundscapes cooperates in polyphonic-like composition, in juxtaposing, confronting and defining each other in the process. Claustrophobia is a multi-channel performance, resulting in an experience that stimulates and expands the audience's intersensory perception.