labRats

Despite all your rage, you are still just a rat in a cage. Luckily, you're also a rat who's been outfitted with a neural implant that allows you to communicate telepathically with the other rats in your cage. Maybe that'll help. labRats is a new digitally native interactive workshop performance by the award-winning duo cirqueSaw. Pulling equally from classic games, silent films, and a generous helping of Lewis Carroll, the piece seeks to blur the line between reality and unreality, between wonder and horror. Audiences play as lab rats in an experiment beyond their control who have to work together to take control of their lives. Whether they choose to escape, take over the lab, or deconstruct the fabric of the reality of their experience itself is entirely up to them. Winner of the 2026 IndieCade Live Action Spotlight Award, 2025 NarraScope Featured Showcase, 2026 GDC Experimental Game Showcase selection, 2026 AMAZE./Berlin Nominee, featured at 2026 Playable Theatre Symposium.