What would you do if order broke down? What would you do to survive? How far would you go to protect your own?
Four performers enter the stage with cameras and construct an epic road movie before our eyes.
It’s a story we know, or think we know – an apocalyptic tale of alien invasion and the unfolding destruction of everything we hold dear. Extraterrestrial lifeforms land from the skies. Lines of Brits scrabble to flee across the channel while their cities and towns lie in smouldering ruins. It’s all of our worst nightmares.
Using miniature environments, model worlds, camera tricks, and projection, imitating the dog mix the live and the recorded, the animate and the inanimate to create a thrilling, audacious and timely retelling of H.G. Wells’s classic novel.
Following their acclaimed adaptations of literary classics Heart of Darkness (2018), Dracula (2021), Macbeth (2023) and Frankenstein (2024), ‘multimedia daredevils’ (The Times) imitating the dog push their inventive storytelling to new heights.
Schools
Bookings are now open exclusively to schools! Ticket are £13 for pupils and for every 10 you bring, you’ll recieve 1 free ticket for a staff member. To make a reservtion, please contact our Relationship Manager Ellis through the contact button below, or call our Box Office on 01473 295900.
Alongside the production, imitating the dog have also created a collection of FREE digital learning resources. These resources provide further background and context to the creative choices made by the team during a production process, from narrative decisions in adapting the source material, to technical and visual design. They also give some background to the history of the company, as well as things to look out for in the show if you’re bringing a group, and how the production links to different curriculum areas.
imitating the dog are also running practical workshops which provide a fun, informative and insightful experience of the company’s innovative approach to telling stories. They vary from a short introduction to mixing the visual languages of film and theatre using no technology at all, to longer sessions involving live camera feeds, projection and/or greenscreen, and storyboarding. Workshops can be adapted to a range of needs, interests and budgets, so please get in touch if you’d like to discuss possibilities.