Facility 111: A Government Experiment

About the show

A surreal new audio play, written and performed by Inge-Vera Lipsius. It takes place in darkness and asks audiences to visualise a series of poetic images in two different, but interconnected cities—one made of glass, another of sand. The piece takes the form of a (sci-fi) government experiment and asks: Are we, ultimately, less different from one another than we might think?

There will be a post-show talk / Q&A in the ACT Studio included in your ticket.

Facility 111 will be presented at Assembly Front Room at the Edinburgh Fringe, July 31-Aug 17 (not Aug 12) at 11:25. It had its first presentations at the Old Red Lion this spring and will have its previews ahead of the Fringe at the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham, on July 20 and 23 at 19:30.

About the artist

Inge-Vera Lipsius is an American-Dutch director, theatre-maker, writer, and performer. She has directed and written sold-out productions in London and Amsterdam. Her play Quad Loop — the first play on the doping scandal surrounding Kamila Valieva at the 2022 Winter Olympics— was one of six pieces selected to be presented at the Bush Theatre in the Bomb Factory Theatre New Writing Showcase (April 2025). Last year, Quad Loop had its UK premiere at the Pushkin House in Bloomsbury, ahead of the 2024 Summer Games.

Lipsius made her directorial debut at The Merchant House, Amsterdam, with Paranoia (2022/23) — her adaptation (the first stage adaptation) of the post-war novella by the classic Dutch author Willem Frederik Hermans. She is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and Ecole Philippe Gaulier in France.

Image credit: René Lazový