Firefly Festival: The Dodo Experiment By Martin Travvers and Chloe Wypers
Black Box Theatre TFTV/046, School of Arts and Creative Technologies East, Campus East, University of York (Map)
Event details
Firefly Festival 2026!
The Dodo Experiment
Imprisoned in an abandoned warehouse, a desperate group of failing actors is trapped in a dark experiment.
After months of endlessly rehearsing George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion with no director to guide them, some of the ensemble have disappeared, leaving the others paranoid and subservient. Sleep-deprived and half-starved, their fragile social bonds shatter and implode as a stranger breaks in and incites them to rebel.
Content Warnings - Present: Addiction, Alcoholism, Amnesia/Memory loss, Blackmail, Blood, Bullying, Classism, Emotional Abuse, Fire, Grief, Kidnapping/Abduction, Manipulation, Mental Illness, Pandemic, Physical Abuse, Psychological Abuse, Rioting, Spiking, Stalking, Starvation, Strong language, Torture, Violence, Vomiting Mentioned: Amputation, Animal Abuse, Animal Death, Cannibalism, Cyberbullying, Death/dying, Debt, Guns, Hallucination, Murder, Mutilation, Pregnancy, Prison/Incarceration, Smoking, Suicide, War
Cast
Director - Amy Vyskcocil-Flint
Designer - Catrin Parry
Designer - Louisa Ashdown
Maddie - Erin Martin
Layla - Evie Gallagher
David - Louis Kent
Peggy - Louisa Ashdown
Bella - Nell Hemmingfield
Aria - Zoe Storier
Hugo - Jan Iszkula
Trevor - Dan Wetherwill
About Firefly Theatre Festival
Firefly Festival is a celebration of all performance and theatre. This festival is centred around community and celebrating each other through live performances, music, cinema and new writing. Firefly not only platforms up and coming talent but also provides opportunities to work with and hear from established local artists in theatre.
Venue details
Wheelchair accessible