Set design / Experience design / Installations
We first started working together as ABBY+ALICE in 2016 whilst studying Performance Design at Central Saint Martins. We won a student bid to design an installation for the Royal Academy’s Late event and have worked collaboratively ever since.
We make environments that people can be in, that tell stories and rely on the audience being active and having agency. Our own work centres narrative discovery in interactive sets: inspired by video game style storytelling and developed through an iterative design process.
We make work because we love learning collaboratively through interactive environments and letting that grow in unexpected directions when it’s introduced to audiences. More recently, we’ve been making games that break down complex systems into playable theatre.
100 Wardour Street Soho
ADCE Festival Barcelona
Arts Council England
Bompas & Parr
Captain Morgan
Ellenborough Park
Glastonbury festival
Horniman Museum and Gardens
Iris Theatre Covent Garden
Lost Lectures
Lovebox festival
MAMA productions
Maverick Projects
Nutkhut
Orleans House Gallery
Royal Academy of Arts
Social Eating House and The Blind Pig Bar
The Conduit members club
The Lost Estate
The Steel Yard
University of the Arts London
Victoria and Albert Museum
WaterAid Charity
We Are Jackanory
Wilderness Festival
2018 – ADC*E (Art Directors Club of Europe) – We were selected as one of 22 ‘High Potentials’, hand picked from across Europe by the ADC*E . They invited us to Barcelona to present our most beloved project ‘Man on the Moon’, to a conference of industry leaders.
2019 – The Stage – ‘Souvenir’ was selected as one of The Stage’s top 5 immersive experiences of the year.
2019 – The V & A – We were selected by The Society of British Theatre Designers to be part of the Staging Places exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in Kensington. Our project ‘Never Set Eyes on the Land’ in collaboration with NUTKHUT was on display in the Theatre and Performance section from March 2019 until March 2020.
