• You are welcome to leave and re-enter from the theatre as you need.
• There is a break-out room available called The Student Common Room.
• House lighting is on low throughout, never going to full black-out.
• Loud noises are reduced.
• No strobe lighting is used.
• You are welcome to react to the show however you want.
• At the end of this document is a show synopsis and sensory guide .
When you arrive at LAMDA, the entrance to the building and Linbury Theatre is the closest entrance to Baron’s Court Station.
There will be a member of staff on the door who will take your name and scan your QR code ticket.
This is the Theatre Foyer and entrance to the Linbury Theatre. You may be asked to wait here until the house is open. You will be shown how to get to the Linbury Studio Theatre by an usher.
Toilets are located next to the bar.
LAMDA staff will be wearing LAMDA branded T-Shirts or lanyards.
If you need any assistance whilst in the building, please ask them.
When you enter the theatre, an Usher will take your ticket from you.
You are welcome to sit wherever you like.
You can come and go from the space whenever you like. The house lights will stay on low throughout the show.
There is a break-out space called ‘The Common Room’ which you are welcome to use at any point during the performance.
The Common Room is accessed via a corridor that follows on from the bar and the toilets.
If you aren’t sure at any point during your visit where to go, please ask an usher, who will be happy to assist you.
Before the show begins, the actors will introduce themselves and the characters they are playing.
The lights in the theatre will dim and she show will start. You can leave and re-enter if you need to through the doors you came in through.
At the end of the show the actors will come on and bow. You are welcome to clap at this point if you would like.
The actors change parts regularly throughout the play, sometimes during a scene. Keep an eye out for projections or items of costume that can help identify a character or signal a change.
Below is a brief synopsis of the play to aid in contextualizing the following sensory guide.
A girl is locked in a room. A boy brings another boy flowers. A girl has tied herself to a railing. A boy doesn't know who he is. A girl worries about impending catastrophe. A woman jumps in front of a train. A boy's heart falls out his chest. A butterfly has a broken wing.
Laura Lomas's play Chaos is a symphony of dislocated and interconnected scenes. A series of characters search for meaning in a complicated and unstable world. Bouncing through physics, the cosmos, love and violence, they find order in the disorder of each other.
During most of this play, there is music and noise underneath the scenes that builds tension.
Pre-show
There are 6 bright white LED light boxes that make up the set design.
There is a blackout and a low rumble.
A spotlight gets put onto 3 actors each doing a different action, with a blackout in between.
Scene 1
There is electronic music with a heavy beat underneath the dialogue.
The light boxes flash yellow.
Scene 2
Loud scene change music into next scene.
Scene 3
There is a slow flashing of the light boxes at the back.
The music gets louder again at the end of the scene
Scene 4
There is a whirring noise and the sounds of other people shouting in the background
At the end of the scene there is a sound effect of a bouncing ball.
Scene 5
One of the actors is bouncing a basketball throughout the scene.
Scene 6
No distressing action.
Scene 7
The whirring sounds gets louder and more intense towards the end of the scene
Scenes 8 - 11
No distressing action.
Scene 12
There is a tense atmospheric noise throughout this scene. There is a loud whirring noise at the end of the scene.
Scene 13
All of the cast do a dance, to music that has a heavy bass line.
Scene 14 - 17
No distressing action
Scene 18
There is a drone noise underscoring the speech that gets more intense throughout.
The scenes now start to overlap and all of the actors talk over each other which can get very loud and quite overwhelming.
The drone noise gets louder throughout the scenes, and other sound effects overlap.
There is another scream from an actor.
There is loud music.
No distressing action.
During the end people will clap and may stand up, cheer or shout to tell the actors they did a good job.