Hidden Track
@hiddentrack.org.uk
Multi-award-winning interactive theatre company.
Live shows and online games available now at https://hiddentrack.org.uk
Live shows and online games available now at https://hiddentrack.org.uk
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Hidden Track
@hiddentrack.org.uk
· Mar 31
Benefits Quest Trailer
YouTube video by Hidden Track
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Incredibly excited to announce that we'll be recieving support from @immersiveartsuk.bsky.social and their #ExperimentFund to create our brand new show BENEFITS QUEST - a fusion of live video gaming and interactive theatre interrogating the modern benefits system.
#ImmersiveArtsUK
#ImmersiveArtsUK
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Performers at the Crystal Maze immersive experience in London have raised concerns about pay, working hours and health and safety with Equity.
Read more 👇
Read more 👇
Crystal Maze immersive show under scrutiny for ‘dangerous working conditions’
www.thestage.co.uk
August 20, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Performers at the Crystal Maze immersive experience in London have raised concerns about pay, working hours and health and safety with Equity.
Read more 👇
Read more 👇
Incredibly excited to announce that we'll be recieving support from @immersiveartsuk.bsky.social and their #ExperimentFund to create our brand new show BENEFITS QUEST - a fusion of live video gaming and interactive theatre interrogating the modern benefits system.
#ImmersiveArtsUK
#ImmersiveArtsUK
Benefits Quest Trailer
YouTube video by Hidden Track
www.youtube.com
March 31, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Incredibly excited to announce that we'll be recieving support from @immersiveartsuk.bsky.social and their #ExperimentFund to create our brand new show BENEFITS QUEST - a fusion of live video gaming and interactive theatre interrogating the modern benefits system.
#ImmersiveArtsUK
#ImmersiveArtsUK
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We’re excited to announce the second round of funded artists!
142 projects across the UK have been awarded over £2M to Explore, Experiment, & Expand their use of immersive tech - from VR and spatial audio to AI and connected textiles.
Read more: immersivearts.uk/news/140-uk-projects-receive-2m
142 projects across the UK have been awarded over £2M to Explore, Experiment, & Expand their use of immersive tech - from VR and spatial audio to AI and connected textiles.
Read more: immersivearts.uk/news/140-uk-projects-receive-2m
March 31, 2026 at 11:35 AM
We’re excited to announce the second round of funded artists!
142 projects across the UK have been awarded over £2M to Explore, Experiment, & Expand their use of immersive tech - from VR and spatial audio to AI and connected textiles.
Read more: immersivearts.uk/news/140-uk-projects-receive-2m
142 projects across the UK have been awarded over £2M to Explore, Experiment, & Expand their use of immersive tech - from VR and spatial audio to AI and connected textiles.
Read more: immersivearts.uk/news/140-uk-projects-receive-2m
Utterly heartbreaking that this is what we've come to, but Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group have written a statement to respond directly to the concerns and questions they’ve heard from local communities. @gmiau.bsky.social
Please read, please share.
Please read, please share.
October 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Utterly heartbreaking that this is what we've come to, but Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group have written a statement to respond directly to the concerns and questions they’ve heard from local communities. @gmiau.bsky.social
Please read, please share.
Please read, please share.
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Recently, we have seen an increase in protests and demonstrations outside asylum hotels, driven by misinformation and fear.
Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group have written a statement to respond directly to the concerns and questions they’ve heard from local communities.
Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group have written a statement to respond directly to the concerns and questions they’ve heard from local communities.
Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group: Our response to the protests outside hotels - GMIAU
Statement from a group in Manchester who have lived experience of living in asylum accommodation responding to the racist far-right protests
gmiau.org
October 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Recently, we have seen an increase in protests and demonstrations outside asylum hotels, driven by misinformation and fear.
Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group have written a statement to respond directly to the concerns and questions they’ve heard from local communities.
Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group have written a statement to respond directly to the concerns and questions they’ve heard from local communities.
Our first pick of the Fringe!
Afreena is an incredibly charismatic performer, a brilliant writer, and - most importantly - this is a proper no messing about quiz.
Fun, touching, human, and a show that can be enjoyed by real people and not just theatre people, absolutely fantastic.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ From us!
Afreena is an incredibly charismatic performer, a brilliant writer, and - most importantly - this is a proper no messing about quiz.
Fun, touching, human, and a show that can be enjoyed by real people and not just theatre people, absolutely fantastic.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ From us!
Lucky Tonight! is an interactive pub quiz/theatre show by Afreena Islam-Wright. Quizmaster (and former contestant of The Chase!) Afreena will put you through your paces to help her tell her story.
🗓️ 31 July - 24 Aug
Tickets on sale now
www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/eve...
#TravFest25
🗓️ 31 July - 24 Aug
Tickets on sale now
www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/eve...
#TravFest25
August 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Our first pick of the Fringe!
Afreena is an incredibly charismatic performer, a brilliant writer, and - most importantly - this is a proper no messing about quiz.
Fun, touching, human, and a show that can be enjoyed by real people and not just theatre people, absolutely fantastic.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ From us!
Afreena is an incredibly charismatic performer, a brilliant writer, and - most importantly - this is a proper no messing about quiz.
Fun, touching, human, and a show that can be enjoyed by real people and not just theatre people, absolutely fantastic.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ From us!
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Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people.
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot
Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guasrdian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people.
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Playwrights! Screenwriters! Friends of playwrights and screenwriters! If you're in London on the 24th July PLEASE join us for a #SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial at Soho Theatre Walthamstow. Pls share.
July 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Playwrights! Screenwriters! Friends of playwrights and screenwriters! If you're in London on the 24th July PLEASE join us for a #SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial at Soho Theatre Walthamstow. Pls share.
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I'm speaking at Resistance in Game Space on Sat 26th July in Edinburgh!
It's a *free* event by @rachelhamada.bsky.social featuring an exhibition, a workshop about unionising in video games, and a discussion about the gamification of society, and a curated film screening. Come along!
It's a *free* event by @rachelhamada.bsky.social featuring an exhibition, a workshop about unionising in video games, and a discussion about the gamification of society, and a curated film screening. Come along!
Resistance in Game Space
Level up! Come down to this multimedia day to explore the ways people are subverting rules, hierarchies and norms in and around video games
www.eventbrite.co.uk
July 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I'm speaking at Resistance in Game Space on Sat 26th July in Edinburgh!
It's a *free* event by @rachelhamada.bsky.social featuring an exhibition, a workshop about unionising in video games, and a discussion about the gamification of society, and a curated film screening. Come along!
It's a *free* event by @rachelhamada.bsky.social featuring an exhibition, a workshop about unionising in video games, and a discussion about the gamification of society, and a curated film screening. Come along!
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UK playful pals & mutuals- we've been given a bit more capacity for our boutique Car Boot Casino night at Develop on Tues 8 July
If you enjoy homebrew card & bluffing games, poker visors, janky prizes then ticket details are below:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-zz...
Code: DOGPLAYINGPOKER
If you enjoy homebrew card & bluffing games, poker visors, janky prizes then ticket details are below:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-zz...
Code: DOGPLAYINGPOKER
June 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
UK playful pals & mutuals- we've been given a bit more capacity for our boutique Car Boot Casino night at Develop on Tues 8 July
If you enjoy homebrew card & bluffing games, poker visors, janky prizes then ticket details are below:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-zz...
Code: DOGPLAYINGPOKER
If you enjoy homebrew card & bluffing games, poker visors, janky prizes then ticket details are below:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-zz...
Code: DOGPLAYINGPOKER
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this is the real use case for AI: creating a centralized source of "truth" that can be altered at the whim of its fascist owners. technology cannot be disconnected from its financial backing & political consequences. pretending it "could be useful" in a vacuum is a fantasy. bsky.app/profile/pale...
June 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
this is the real use case for AI: creating a centralized source of "truth" that can be altered at the whim of its fascist owners. technology cannot be disconnected from its financial backing & political consequences. pretending it "could be useful" in a vacuum is a fantasy. bsky.app/profile/pale...
Giving this a lil refresh - are you an/do you know any artist/companies hanging around in the interactive-y, immersive-y, gaming-y, audience pressing buttons and shouting and throwing stuff bit of theatre?
Let us know, and we'll get them on the list!
#Interactive #Immersive #Gaming #Theatre
Let us know, and we'll get them on the list!
#Interactive #Immersive #Gaming #Theatre
May 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Giving this a lil refresh - are you an/do you know any artist/companies hanging around in the interactive-y, immersive-y, gaming-y, audience pressing buttons and shouting and throwing stuff bit of theatre?
Let us know, and we'll get them on the list!
#Interactive #Immersive #Gaming #Theatre
Let us know, and we'll get them on the list!
#Interactive #Immersive #Gaming #Theatre
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Just went to a workshop on creating interactive theatre and it made me realise how unusual my perspective is as someone who's come into theatre from video game design.
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May 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Just went to a workshop on creating interactive theatre and it made me realise how unusual my perspective is as someone who's come into theatre from video game design.
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Just had the privilege of being in a room of wonderful people, with a phenomenal piece of #interactivetheatre, and the most compelling thing a room full of wonderful people can possibly be given:
A MYSTERY BOX.
Fantastic as always @ontroerendgoed.bsky.social
ontroerendgoed.be/en/projecten...
A MYSTERY BOX.
Fantastic as always @ontroerendgoed.bsky.social
ontroerendgoed.be/en/projecten...
April 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Just had the privilege of being in a room of wonderful people, with a phenomenal piece of #interactivetheatre, and the most compelling thing a room full of wonderful people can possibly be given:
A MYSTERY BOX.
Fantastic as always @ontroerendgoed.bsky.social
ontroerendgoed.be/en/projecten...
A MYSTERY BOX.
Fantastic as always @ontroerendgoed.bsky.social
ontroerendgoed.be/en/projecten...
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The Greens have eviscerated Labour in a council by-election in Haringey. This is David Lammy's constituency.💚🌳
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The Greens have eviscerated Labour in a council by-election in Haringey. This is David Lammy's constituency.💚🌳
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
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Attention small theatres - still time to apply for this fantastic opportunity to have your seats refurbished by prestigious Race Furniture
Deadline: Monday 28 April
www.theatrestrust.org.uk/ssa
Deadline: Monday 28 April
www.theatrestrust.org.uk/ssa
📢 We are partnering with Race Furniture on an exciting new award as part of its 80th anniversary celebrations
🪑 Seating's Second Act gives one small theatre the chance have a full auditorium seating refurbishment
Please share with any small theatre
www.theatrestrust.org.uk/latest/news/...
🪑 Seating's Second Act gives one small theatre the chance have a full auditorium seating refurbishment
Please share with any small theatre
www.theatrestrust.org.uk/latest/news/...
April 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Attention small theatres - still time to apply for this fantastic opportunity to have your seats refurbished by prestigious Race Furniture
Deadline: Monday 28 April
www.theatrestrust.org.uk/ssa
Deadline: Monday 28 April
www.theatrestrust.org.uk/ssa
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Very nice review of our show, touring now:
www.westendbestfriend.co.uk/news/review-...
www.westendbestfriend.co.uk/news/review-...
Review: MICHAEL ROSEN: GETTING THROUGH IT, Cambridge Corn Exchange | West End Best Friend
Michael Rosen is currently touring with ‘Getting Through It’, a powerful one-person show exploring grief and mortality.
www.westendbestfriend.co.uk
April 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Very nice review of our show, touring now:
www.westendbestfriend.co.uk/news/review-...
www.westendbestfriend.co.uk/news/review-...
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Thinking differently and beyond ACE investment is urgent and needs to be done now, writes @lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social 👇
Lyn Gardner: Time for the arts to look beyond ACE funding?
Thinking outside the box can help theatre companies find funding routes independent of pinched Arts Council England, says Lyn Gardner
www.thestage.co.uk
April 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Thinking differently and beyond ACE investment is urgent and needs to be done now, writes @lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social 👇
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Remarkable clip.
The OBR apparently has a new role - a tool for ministers to outsource the negative impacts of government policy.
The OBR apparently has a new role - a tool for ministers to outsource the negative impacts of government policy.
Liz Kendall refuses to tell ITV News's Anushka Asthana how many people will be affected by the changes to benefits Labour announced today
Either Kendall knows but won't say because it's really bad, or she doesn't know so can't say
This kind of flippancy ought to be career ending
Either Kendall knows but won't say because it's really bad, or she doesn't know so can't say
This kind of flippancy ought to be career ending
March 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Remarkable clip.
The OBR apparently has a new role - a tool for ministers to outsource the negative impacts of government policy.
The OBR apparently has a new role - a tool for ministers to outsource the negative impacts of government policy.
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Hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure, the sold out production of TOXIC, the powerful and passionate play by Nathaniel J Hall and Dibby Theatre Productions, hits the playhouse this week!
🎭 Thu 20 – Fri 21 Mar
🎟️https://bit.ly/4iSs7x9
🎭 Thu 20 – Fri 21 Mar
🎟️https://bit.ly/4iSs7x9
March 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure, the sold out production of TOXIC, the powerful and passionate play by Nathaniel J Hall and Dibby Theatre Productions, hits the playhouse this week!
🎭 Thu 20 – Fri 21 Mar
🎟️https://bit.ly/4iSs7x9
🎭 Thu 20 – Fri 21 Mar
🎟️https://bit.ly/4iSs7x9
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⚠️ WEEKLY WARNING
🔍 discover new #performance to watch in #Manchester and beyond…
📰 read our latest #signpost to the bizarre, beautiful, and best upcoming shows and events…
🔍 discover new #performance to watch in #Manchester and beyond…
📰 read our latest #signpost to the bizarre, beautiful, and best upcoming shows and events…
warnmcr: quasi autonomous...
In a week that saw the pruning of benefits and the severing of the limbs of quangos, the only Spring growth might be in austerity...
This weekend Verve's Triple Bill is at the New Adelphi...
wordofwarning.posthaven.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
⚠️ WEEKLY WARNING
🔍 discover new #performance to watch in #Manchester and beyond…
📰 read our latest #signpost to the bizarre, beautiful, and best upcoming shows and events…
🔍 discover new #performance to watch in #Manchester and beyond…
📰 read our latest #signpost to the bizarre, beautiful, and best upcoming shows and events…
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🎟️ Two new productions have just gone on sale for 2025 🎟️
Liberation with Factory International for #MIF25 27 JUN - 26 JUL
Dancing at Lughnasa with @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social 11 OCT - 8 NOV
Get 10% off total ticket price when you get tickets at the same time! 👉️ rxtheat.re/GSale25Fb
Liberation with Factory International for #MIF25 27 JUN - 26 JUL
Dancing at Lughnasa with @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social 11 OCT - 8 NOV
Get 10% off total ticket price when you get tickets at the same time! 👉️ rxtheat.re/GSale25Fb
March 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🎟️ Two new productions have just gone on sale for 2025 🎟️
Liberation with Factory International for #MIF25 27 JUN - 26 JUL
Dancing at Lughnasa with @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social 11 OCT - 8 NOV
Get 10% off total ticket price when you get tickets at the same time! 👉️ rxtheat.re/GSale25Fb
Liberation with Factory International for #MIF25 27 JUN - 26 JUL
Dancing at Lughnasa with @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social 11 OCT - 8 NOV
Get 10% off total ticket price when you get tickets at the same time! 👉️ rxtheat.re/GSale25Fb
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Just 1% of the UK population has wealth of £2.8 trillion, compared to £2.4 trillion held by 70% of the population combined.
The richest FOUR Britons have more wealth than 20m people combined.
Rich have hijacked govts.
Must tax the rich to improve life chances of the rest.
The richest FOUR Britons have more wealth than 20m people combined.
Rich have hijacked govts.
Must tax the rich to improve life chances of the rest.
Here’s how Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement must offer hope
'The government needs to recalibrate policies'
leftfootforward.org
March 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Just 1% of the UK population has wealth of £2.8 trillion, compared to £2.4 trillion held by 70% of the population combined.
The richest FOUR Britons have more wealth than 20m people combined.
Rich have hijacked govts.
Must tax the rich to improve life chances of the rest.
The richest FOUR Britons have more wealth than 20m people combined.
Rich have hijacked govts.
Must tax the rich to improve life chances of the rest.
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Keir Starmer has declared war on disabled people.
Labour are planning to be even crueller than the Tories.
Is this why people join Labour - to kick vulnerable people?
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/labour-dec...
Labour are planning to be even crueller than the Tories.
Is this why people join Labour - to kick vulnerable people?
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/labour-dec...
March 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Keir Starmer has declared war on disabled people.
Labour are planning to be even crueller than the Tories.
Is this why people join Labour - to kick vulnerable people?
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/labour-dec...
Labour are planning to be even crueller than the Tories.
Is this why people join Labour - to kick vulnerable people?
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/labour-dec...
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Choosing to take money from disabled benefit claimants rather than levy a wealth tax is simply immoral 👇
Labour mollifies the rich, targets disabled people and claims moral justification. There isn’t any | Frances Ryan
Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Choosing to take money from disabled benefit claimants rather than levy a wealth tax is simply immoral 👇