The Escaperoom

Welcome to the Escape Room - a surreal adventure into your inner world

The Escape Room invites the audience into a surreal chamber of transformation. Upon entering, they are welcomed by three psychopomps, mythic guides who move between worlds, performed by Adrian Kautsky, Linda Forsell and Ambrose Watts. In mythology, a psychopomp accompanies souls through moments of passage, navigating the fragile threshold between the visible and the unseen, the conscious and the unconscious.

Poster for The Escaperoom. Two people, a woman and a man, sit and stand next to a distorted doll in a grimy, dirty room with dirty tiled walls and floors, and graffiti on the walls.

Entering what first appears to be a classical escape room, the audience encounters riddles, symbols and hidden clues: hourglasses, chessboards, floating objects, secret keys and a self-constructed time machine. Through storytelling, imaginary time travel and hypnotic experiments, the space gradually transforms into a dreamlike inner landscape where the boundaries between reality and imagination begin to dissolve.

Rooted in the artistic team’s lived experiences of therapy, healing processes, critical illness and gender transition, the work draws on personal transformation as both method and material. Within this immersive environment the audience becomes part of the dramaturgy. Expectations of solving the room slowly shift as the performance questions contemporary therapeutic paradigms that frame the self as something to optimize and repair.

Inspired by the surrealist movement, The Escape Room approaches the dream not as escapism but as resistance. Archetypes, symbols and poetic disruptions of logic open a space where imagination and the unconscious challenge a rationalized world obsessed with efficiency and certainty.

Specially composed music runs through the performance, including vocal work and a custom-built harp played by Ambrose Watts, alongside experimental masks and scenography, darkly humorous texts and puzzles. Together the team creates an experience that is playful, uncanny and deeply existential, an invitation not to escape, but to enter the unknown.

Artistic team: Linda Forsell, Adrian Kautsky and Ambrose Watts

Premiere: September 2026, more info soon