Memory Police

This immersive walking performance combines the unique properties of audio enhanced, headphone theatre with the organic story telling of the surroundings that comes with site specific theatre.


Based on the book “Memory Police”, Originally published in Japanese in 1994, the book’s recent translation resonated with us on issues of totalitarianism and resistance, loss and community the performance is a reaction to the post-pandemic, late capitalist, right-wing populist, climate emergency era that we find ourselves living through.

Audience members are given headphones, placed into small groups and guided along the banks of the Vltava river. Through their headphones audiences are immersed in the world of the performance through text, music & soundscapes. Through a pre-recorded and live interaction, the performance layers the fictitious world of The Memory Police and Prague’s birds, people, objects and landscapes who become unknowing actors in the narrative.