Doppelgangster is an international performance collective creating anarchic, site-responsive work at the intersection of theatre, live art, film and sound. Collaborating with festivals, universities, and cultural institutions, the work responds to urgent global crises.
WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN… 2027
COLD WAR 2.0 NOW SHOWING
THE ANARCHY (1138-53): PT 1 2025
A SOUND LIKE THUNDER 2025
ESCAPE/THERE IS NO ESCAPE R&D
GHOST TOWN R&D
EVERYTHING MIGHT GO 2024-26
DOPPELGANGSTER’S ATLANTIS 2023
COLD WAR 2019-20
EVERYBODY LOSES 2017-19
DOPPELGANGSTER’S TITANIC 2015-16
PUNTILA/MATTI 2017
THE ETERNITY OF THE WORLD 2017
CHOKE ME 2019
TREEFXXXERS 2018
RADIO PLAGUE 2020
BAD REPUTATION 2020
HOT!HOT!HOT! FESTIVAL 2016
BABY 2016
A DEATH SENTENCE 2017
THE NATURAL DISASTER 2018
WAKE ME WHEN IT’S OVER 2017
MARIE ROGET 2017
DISINFORMATION BOOTH 2016
OXYGEN SUPPORT 2015
THE 11TH HOUR 2015
DOPPELGANGSTER (DEAD) 2015
“WILDLY EXPERIMENTAL
AND WILDLY ENTERTAINING”
DAILY REVIEW
“YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF
TO SEE THIS”
★★★★★
THE MUSIC
“Postmodern genius.”
★★★★★
TIMEOUT
“Theatrical Saboteurs.”
THE AGE
“ORIGINAL… GRIPPING AND INTELLIGENT.”
PLACING THE ANTHROPOCENE
HYPERREALISM & PUNK ROCK
In a cheap motel room, two losers eat poisoned snow cones and watch you through a drone. The flavour is synthetic, the air is toxic, and participation becomes ritual. Part hyperreal theatre, part digital installation, COLD WAR 2.0 stages surveillance, complicity and collapse through a live choreography of watching and being watched.
HISTORICAL & HYSTERICAL
A wall of text comes tumbling down. THE ANARCHY (1138-53): PART ONE is the first instalment of a trilogy about dark times, violence, and disorder. Inspired by the eponymous civil war of England and Normandy – told using the detailed text of a walk-through guide to a fictional computer RPG – it is an experiment into active spectatorship and a dissection of grand narratives of history and popular entertainment.
ENVIRONMENTAL DRAMATURGY
Water floods a shipping container. A car drives through the audience. Fires start. The band plays on. TITANIC restages a familiar disaster as contemporary ritual. Performed at COP21 in Paris and beyond, it combines spectacle, satire and steel to ask who gets saved, who gets blamed, and who never boarded.
BREATH & RESISTANCE
The air is thick with history and nitrogen dioxide. CHOKE ME is an unflinching performance made in response to air pollution in Sheffield. Combining theatre, movement and data, the work explores breath as politics and stillness as resistance. It brings ecological crisis into the body and holds it there.
