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 digitally native interactive  performance by the award-winning duo cirqueSaw (IndieCade 2026 Live Action Spotlight, 2026 GDC Experimental Games Showcase, 2025 NarraScope Featured Showcase). 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.