With over two decades of expertise in immersive performance, an established international presence and a leader in academia, ZU-UK are a leading company in immersive performance and participatory theatre, working in partnership with the University of Greenwich.
The creators of Hotel Medea, ZU-UK are innovators in technology and interactive performance and have worked with spatial audio, touch synchronisation using Unreal Engine, Metahumans, Unity, Bone-conducting headphones, multi-channel broadcast, augmented audio, locative ambisonics and binaural sound.
We offer a range of options, from on-site performances and university talks to remote workshops and site-responsive interactive shows. Our bespoke modules can be tailored to suit your student’s program and accommodate various budgets.
★★★★
“One of the defining hits of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.”
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The Sunday Herald
on Hotel Medea
★★★★
``A rare and wonderful experience of total suspension of disbelief.``
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The Daily Telegraph
on Hotel Medea
★★★★★
``Given the level of complexity the execution is immaculate. Until the cast drop their characters for the 6am breakfast the performances are perfect in every exhausting detail.``
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The List
on Hotel Medea
From June to December 2015, 7000 visitors experienced #RioFoneHack in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park; where three iconic Brazilian phone boxes rang as visitors walked past. Those who dared to pick up were treated to an interactive, intimate and humorous audio experience.
More recently Binaural Dinner Date (2017) enjoyed a sold out season and an extended run at Theatre Royal Stratford East, eventually transferring to Stratford Shopping Centre.
★★★★
“Well developed and flawlessly executed...actually challenges you to be human again and try to see someone else for who they truly are.``
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Londonist
on Binaural Dinner Date
★★★★
“Ranges between excruciating and hilarious...an earnest social experiment into attraction, making connections and what we expect of relationships.”
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Time Out
on Binaural Dinner Date
``It really makes you think about what it means to be a human being, what it means to make contact with other people.”
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ZU-UK audience member
on Binaural Dinner Date
“ZU-UK is a lot more than a theatre company – with a rigorous, and yet always celebratory set of approaches, the company has helped many artists find new ways of thinking about and making their work. With cross-cultural collaboration at the heart of its practice, ZU-UK encourages everyone who works with the company to explore surprising juxtapositions, new methods of working together, and original ways of inviting the audience into the work. Meanwhile, as a theatre company, ZU-UK produces bold, joyful experiences that transform perceptions and take audiences on unforgettable journeys.”
John McGrath, Artistic Director, Manchester International Festival
“ZU-UK have over recent years developed an important approach to immersive theatre making. From the vast experience their works strikes an important balance that is often difficult to achieve in immersive theatre: it provides audiences with a carefully crafted and deeply engaging experience whilst maintaining an intense theatricality and a commitment to the highest artistic standards. ZU-UK’s articulation of a methodology for performers in the field, as well as a design approach to a ‘Dramaturgy of Participation’ will have a positive impact in the field – for performers, makers and audiences.”
Mark Ball, former Artistic Director, LIFT Festival
“ZU-UK were part of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park’s Local Programme in 2015, where their project Rio Fone Hack #123 brought an innovative and interactive artistic experience into the Park’s open landscape by fostering conversation and dialogue between visitors and connections to Brazil 5,000 miles away. We are incredibly excited that such forward, brave and innovative thinking in the arts has been working in east London over the last 15 years, and that we have been able to bring them into the Park. They are leaders in creating immersive experiences for a variety of audiences, and pioneering new uses of old and new technologies. As our plans around a world class education and cultural district for the Park, gather speed, it’s very exciting that ZU-UK will now be expanding their work in east London, and leading new cultural education with our neighbours at UEL.”
Adriana Marques, former Head of Arts and Culture Programme, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
“ZU-UK are one of the most ambitious and provocative theatre companies working in Britain today. Hotel Medea is a seriously playful programme of cleverly structured chaos, showcasing their desire to return the spectator to the heart of a theatrical ritual tempered with contradiction and irony and a very contemporary sensibility.”
Gareth White PhD, Researcher, Central School of Speech and Drama