Toby Jones (Mr Bates vs The Post Office), Meera Syal (The Devil’s Hour), Kathryn Hunter (Black Doves) and Billy Howle (The Perfect Couple) will lend their voices to Storehouse, a new immersive theatre production set to take over Deptford Storehouse this summer.
The ground-breaking show will see audiences step into a 9,000-square metre underworld where humanity’s stories have been archived since the dawn of time, leaving them to question today’s information ecosystem.
The four voiceover artists will act as guides through the Storehouse narrative as the four founding members, a group of radical visionaries who believed that by storing and analysing all human knowledge, they could ignite the dawn of a new digital consciousness.
Leading the physical company in Deptford will be Nina Smith, Dawn Butler, Bonnie Adair and Zachary Pang.
They will be joined by Nat Kennedy, Elizabeth Hollingshead, Chris Agha and Harriett O’Grady, with Rob Leetham, Scott Karim, Grace Hussey-Burd and Darrel Bailey.
As their surroundings crumble and secrets unfold, the true cost of controlling the narrative will become clear as audiences are urged to examine their vulnerability in the face of power.
Fusing art, technology and cutting-edge storytelling, the “monumental” production is billed as one of the UK’s most artistically daring and large-scale immersive theatre experiences, challenging how we perceive
truth, trust and the narratives that shape our world.
Composer Anna Meredith will provide the musical finale for the production, as audiences are thrust into a battle between the defenders of Truth and the keepers of Order. Immersed in an underworld of knowledge, audiences will explore a vast, ever-shifting digital archive, stored by an underground collective – where every news story, message, and meme ever shared has been meticulously preserved in a quest for higher collective wisdom.
As the final founder fades and narratives collide, audiences will become part of the story, navigating this epic digital labyrinth, making choices, and determining the future of this precarious world.
Storehouse marks the debut production from Liana Patarkatsishvili’s Sage & Jester (Secret Cinema, Punchdrunk, BBC Studios, and Warner Music) and promises to be one of the most artistically ambitious, large-scale immersive theatre events ever to be staged in the UK.
Storehouse takes place at Deptford Storehouse from June 4 – September 20, 2025.
Tickets: https://sageandjester.com/shows/storehouse/
Top image: Storehouse founders Meera Syal, Billy Howle, Kathryn Hunter, Toby Jones. Credit: Helen Murray