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@hiddentrack.org.uk
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Multi-award-winning interactive theatre company. Live shows and online games available now at hiddentrack.org.uk

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The Stage @thestage.co.uk · 20/08/2026
Performers at the Crystal Maze immersive experience in London have raised concerns about pay, working hours and health and safety with Equity. Read more 👇
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Crystal Maze immersive show under scrutiny for ‘dangerous working conditions’
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Hidden Track @hiddentrack.org.uk · 31/03/2026
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
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Benefits Quest Trailer
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Immersive Arts UK @immersiveartsuk.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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
A person wearing headphones sits cross-legged in a dark room with vibrant red lighting. Surrounding screens display intense video game fire scenes. The mood is immersive and intense.
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Hidden Track @hiddentrack.org.uk · 30/10/2025
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.
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Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) @gmiau.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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.
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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
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Hidden Track @hiddentrack.org.uk · 04/08/2025
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!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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...
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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
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Anna Jordan @annaruthjordan.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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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Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
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!
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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
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Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk · 24/06/2025
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
event poster, painting of a woman holding a dog with a poker visor and cards. text reads: 

Car Boot Casino: a night of homebrew card, bluffing and betting games. 

Tuesday 8 July 2025, 7pm - late, Brighton

£7.99
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brendle @brendle.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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...
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Hidden Track @hiddentrack.org.uk · 16/05/2025
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
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Alistair Aitcheson & Mademoiselle Cafetière @agaitcheson.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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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Hidden Track @hiddentrack.org.uk · 16/04/2025
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...
Pieces of a slightly ripped cardboard box, saying 'Handle with Care - A performance from Ontroerend Goed'
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The Greens have eviscerated Labour in a council by-election in Haringey. This is David Lammy's constituency.💚🌳 @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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Theatres Trust @theatrestrust.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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
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Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Very nice review of our show, touring now: www.westendbestfriend.co.uk/news/review-...
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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.
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The Stage @thestage.co.uk · 07/04/2025
Thinking differently and beyond ACE investment is urgent and needs to be done now, writes @lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social 👇
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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
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Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Remarkable clip. The OBR apparently has a new role - a tool for ministers to outsource the negative impacts of government policy.
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Sheffield Theatres @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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
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Word of Warning (hÅb) @warnmcr.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
⚠️ 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…
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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...
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Royal Exchange Theatre @rxtheatre.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🎟️ 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
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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.
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Here’s how Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement must offer hope
'The government needs to recalibrate policies'
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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...
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Choosing to take money from disabled benefit claimants rather than levy a wealth tax is simply immoral 👇
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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
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 10/03/2025
The Government is planning to unveil more than £6 billion of welfare cuts that will see even people with extreme disabilities lose money. None of this is necessary. Billions could be raised by taxing the super-rich fairly. Labour are choosing to punish the most vulnerable.
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Dallo @dallo100.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Jeremy Corbyn: Keir Starmer says there's no money - I don't believe him metro.co.uk/2025/03/05/j...
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Jeremy Corbyn: Keir Starmer says there's no money - I don't believe him
The government cites 'difficult choices' when they are harming the most vulnerable, but increasing defence spending is apparently easy.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"We have to make cuts so we can build more bombs". I think this is bollocks. Defence spending involves vast amounts of waste. Russia represents a real and hideous threat to Ukraine. The threat beyond that is exaggerated. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Keir Starmer, you claim huge and damaging cuts are vital so we can buy arms and defend ourselves. Prove it | Owen Jones
Splurging the cash is not the answer to Europe’s security jitters. Let’s ignore the hyperbole and decide what’s actually needed, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A reminder for these times.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
And then after the obvious rejoinder—"Ukraine is at war with an aggressive foreign invader, and Ukrainian law says they can't hold elections under such martial circumstances"—expect nonsense about how America is under invasion too (defined not as armed attack, but as unarmed people walking north).
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
When Trump tries to postpone elections at some point one argument his people will make is, “But Zelensky postponed elections and you didn’t think that made him a dictator.” Just get ready for that. It’s coming.
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Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme @rtyds.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Want to know more? Find us on: 💻 www.rtyds.co.uk 📷 www.instagram.com/rtyds_uk 📧 fairplay@rtyds.co.uk
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Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme @rtyds.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Hi 👋 We are RTYDS & we're running Fair Play, a nationwide initiative addressing socio-economic inequity in theatre. Our vision is an industry where working class leaders can thrive & where our theatre sector is robust, socially just, & able to recognise, develop & nurture working class talent.
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Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
2/ Respond to the Government consultation by midnight tomorrow - we have produced a guide to make it easy for you (and pls share with colleagues and friends!) writersguild.org.uk/fight-back-a...
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Fight back against Government plans on copyright and AI - The Writers' Guild of Great Britain
On 17 December the Government launched a consultation on AI and copyright. The Government’s proposed plans on AI and copyright will weaken your copyright protections and allow AI companies to use …
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Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
1/ If the Government goes ahead with its proposals on AI, it will give tech companies the ability "to take what they like, when they like, without informing or compensating the writers of the work they use to train their models," says WGGB President Sandi Toksvig writersguild.org.uk/copyright-ai/
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Hidden Track @hiddentrack.org.uk · 22/02/2025
Nah, it's easy. Just work unpaid for a decade, beg for more work that people in power will pretend they'll eventually pay you for, spend your own money to create things that people in power may or may not come and see, and then eventually- What do you mean you can't afford that? Learn to budget.
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Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn
Exclusive: Analysis by the Guardian shows a third of major arts leaders were educated privately
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Nick Kitchener-Bentley @nkbentley.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
It was fabulous to see this brilliant production of The Cost of Everything! I was so impressed by the thoughtful way that @hiddentrack.org.uk co-constructed the show with their audience, creating an urgent interrogation of neoliberalism and a joyful exploration of a meaningful alternative economics!
Nick standing with the set for The Cost of Everything
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Lyn Gardner @lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Hi all, everyone should read this because while ACE has announced a delay and consultation to their proposed changes, what was leaked about what was going to be put in place from April 1 would have been catastrophic and the end for many companies and a migraine for NPOs too.
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Word of Warning (hÅb) @warnmcr.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
WEEKLY WARNING discover new #performance to watch in #Manchester and beyond… read our latest #guide to the bizarre, beautiful, and best upcoming shows and events…
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On this annual celebration of cardmaking, those of us with singular immunity can sit back and watch the guilt-driven scramble for all things heart-shaped... This weekend there's not much to...
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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 14/02/2025
Many blame the planning system for the UK's housing crisis, but the bigger issue lies with developers. Too often, they get permission but don’t build—waiting to sell at a higher price or keep supply low to prop up house prices. Read our new report here: www.ippr.org/articles/str...
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Hidden Track @hiddentrack.org.uk · 12/02/2025
Very excited to announce that our Artistic Director Elliot Hughes has been selected as part of the Factory International Fellowship 2025! You can see the full list of fellows here, such an exciting group of artists!
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Factory International Fellows 2025 | Manchester
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Lily Einhorn @madewithstring.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I went to the first Arts Emergency meeting led by Neil and Josie Long. I was pregnant and in the end couldn’t volunteer at that time but I remember just thinking YES. Yes to this. Have a read. Sign up.
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Hidden Track @hiddentrack.org.uk · 08/02/2025
Oh hey fellow creatives, how d'you feel about AI stealing your work? Do you think that's great and you love it or do you think that might be bad actually? You can fill in the government's online consultation here. @equityuk.bsky.social also have some advice at www.equity.org.uk/campaigns-po... #ai
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Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.
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Hidden Track @hiddentrack.org.uk · 07/02/2025
Not spreading this too widely, but we're holding some industry sharings of our newest show 'The Cost of Everything' at Camden People's Theatre on Weds 19th Feb @ 7pm; and HOME, Manchester on Fri 28th Feb @ 2pm & 5pm. This is invite-only, but if you're a friend of the company, do drop us a message ❤️
A vivid, colourful theatre poster showing a group of small figures trying to fix a broken city while a giant hand takes from a large pile of money at the top. The poster advertises industry sharings for a new production 'The Cost of Everything', created by Hidden Track Theatre, and showing at the Camden's People's Theatre on Wednesday 19th February, 7pm; and at HOME, Manchester on Friday 28th February at 2pm & 5pm. The poster also displays awards and 5-star reviews from previous productions.
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Three by-election gains for Reform last night, two from the Tories and one from Labour. Can see the rightward turn of both parties is reaping them dividends.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Happy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate. (They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase). 1) Go to your account page 2) Hit cancel 3) Change sub back.
screenshot showing choice of plans between Microsoft 365 and "lower cost without AI" option.
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Word of Warning (hÅb) @warnmcr.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
🧬 #SocialExperiment A new gathering for #LiveArt & contemporary #performance — meet artists & others, take a few risks, maybe test out an idea… A series of free, #informal evenings at @contactmcr.bsky.social — today we're showing five works from 6pm to about 9pm wordofwarning.org/socialexperiment
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"Social Experiment at Contact | Thu 6 Feb, 6pm-9pm | FEATURING ARTISTS | Harley Keasey | J. Edgar Staubsauger | Rachael Gooch | Ray Bubbles | special guests Malandra Jacks"
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