PARADISE
A collaboration between DARKFIELD, LIGHTSHED STUDIO & JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
We invite you to participate in our programme. It has been designed for you and people like you. Do not be afraid. Our programme is a simulation of what is real. But it is not real. Our staff will guide you and help you to improve your scores. Are you ready to proceed?
PARADISE is a 30 minute two person immersive audio experience for intimate partners in their own home. Part interactive game, part theatrical experience using speech recognition technology, audience members progress through a world of simulated scenarios that explore why we stay together or fall apart.
PLEASE BE AWARE SHOWS ARE 16+ AND EXPLORE THEMES OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE.
Experienced through the DARKFIELD Radio app available for Android and iPhone.
ARTISTIC DIRECTORS: David Rosenberg, Glen Neath, Gabo Arora
CREATIVE PRODUCER: Victoria Eyton
PRODUCERS: Barry Pousman, Rachael Turner
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: Nancy Glass
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, DARKFIELD: Andrea Salazar
WRITER: Glen Neath
SOUND DESIGNER: David Rosenberg
PRODUCTION COORDINATORS: Mario Ruiz
SOUND ASSOCIATE: Anna Sulley
GRAPHIC DESIGNER: Alex Purcell
PERFORMERS: Ike Ononye, Ryan Brannon, Katrina Cleave, Diana Kessler, Kaitlin Reynell, Abi Amara, Nave Bar El, Natasha Edwards, Samya Mohamed Mohamed, Mia Michaud, Ross Matthew Bentley, Dominic Sebastian James, Alyssa J. Donahue, Lanna Joffrey, Manos Koutsis, Walles Hamonde, James Sobol Kelly, Jordan Lillie
Performances:
SXSW Festival, Austin, Texas, USA, 13-15 March 2022 (live activation)
New Images Festival, Paris, France, 8-12 June 2022 (live activation)
Darkfield Radio from 21 July 2023
If you are affected by any of the themes in PARADISE you can contact the following organisations for support:
Refuge UK
24-Hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline: 0808 2000 247
National Center for Domestic Violence (UK)
The National Centre for Domestic Violence specialises in providing free, fast and effective support to survivors of domestic violence and abuse, usually by helping individuals obtain injunctions from their local county court. This free service is provided to everybody, regardless of their financial circumstances, sexual orientation, race, gender, age, political, religious belief or otherwise.
Help includes:
• free injunction service to everybody; injunctions often within 24 hours;
• a large framework of Legal Aid family solicitors throughout the country;
• emergency Non-Molestation and Occupation Orders;
• emergency Prohibited Steps Orders; and
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•direct links with Local Authorities, health centres, refuges, Women’s Aid Centres and other services.
Citizens Advice Bureau (UK)
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/family/gender-violence/domestic-violence-and-abuse-getting-help
Women’s Aid (UK)