Constructed in the Bailey Allen Hall, University of Galway, this blend of theatre and installation art invites audiences to enter a hyperreal domestic baby's room until Sunday, July 27. Audiences can touch and explore the space before an audio narrative begins two minutes later.
For this world premiere, audiences hear the story of a character and a key moment in her life, which has brought them to this space for the first time. Experience an enhanced form of theatre through the hyper-realistic quality of submerging into a real place with little elements of a character's life, whose personality is uncovered in real time.
The story follows a woman in her thirties, whose life has been difficult. Searching for a moment of happiness and hoping to start again, she finds herself retreating through time to the baby’s room, to the last place she felt genuine happiness.
Designer Paul Fahy is passionate about immersive theatre and is excited to launch the twelfth in the series: "What is beautiful about them? One, they are very unusual and very unique experiences. I cannot think of any other form or anything that is really like this. They are very, very new. Then there is also something almost voyeuristic. If you can imagine walking into a stranger's house, kind of like you are invading... or you are inviting yourself into the space. There is always an interesting dynamic."
The Baby's Room creates the question: Who is this person we are listening to?
"It seems like a very private kind of experience. You are hearing some things that are very personal and affecting to the character, and you are hearing it within the space that matters a lot to them and has been a bit of a key place in their life. It is kind of like being offered a very personal secret or story," Fahy says.
Tickets cost €10 from www.giaf.ie
