It begins the moment you buy a ticket. It doesn’t end when you leave.
The experience
Your ticket confirmation arrives. So does something else.
The Gothpera app sends its first message. Not a welcome email. Not a FAQ. A news alert — the kind you’d scroll past on any other day. Except this one is about a tech acquisition that’s sending shockwaves through the industry. A hostile takeover. A CEO called Svengal-e who describes it as surgical. NeuroLink shares jumping to a record high.
You don’t know yet why this matters. But something about it sits wrong.
Over the following days, more arrives. A Guardian obituary for a punk singer, dead at 23. A TechCrunch interview where Svengal-e says, without flinching, that Avataris’s assets will be dismantled, streamlined, and repurposed. Somewhere in the background of these stories — barely mentioned, easily missed — is a product called Trillb-e.
By the time you walk into the theatre, you already know these people. You already have a side.
You're deep inside the plot - before the curtain rises
Arriving at the theatre
There’s a busker outside. Playing to the crowd milling around the foyer. You might stop. You might not. Either way, something he sings catches — a lyric about screens, about zeroes and ones, about looking up. About being right here.
Inside, open the app. It knows where you are.
Imagine ...
Your phone stays in your hand. This is not a request to switch it off — it’s an invitation to use it.
During the performance
As the story moves between Bill-e’s basement and the world outside, your screen becomes a second stage. Different camera angles. Close-ups the theatre can’t give you. And when Trillb-e steps out of her screen and into the real world — when Svengal-e frees her to go anywhere — you follow her there through augmented reality. London streets. New York. Advertising hoardings. A crowd gathering around a hologram who doesn’t know she’s one.
The app tracks something else too. How the audience is feeling. What they’re choosing. As Act 3 approaches, the story begins to bend toward what the room has decided — and the ending that plays out on your night is the one this audience, together, has made inevitable.
GOTHPERA APP — IN-THEATRE NOTIFICATION
Trillb-e is trending. 2.3 million posts in the last hour. Svengal-e has just confirmed a Graham Norton appearance. Bill-e has not been mentioned once.
Tap to add your voice to the thread.
You can message the tabloid journalists following Trillb-e. You can add to the noise — or try to cut through it. Whether anyone listens is another matter.
Pre-theatre dialogue
Bringing engagment from the moment you buy a ticket
Post theatre follow up
Exclusive content and merchandise
In theatre experience
Different camera angles and augmented reality direct to your screen
Some experiences stay with you forever
Leaving the theatre
The busker is still there.
Hold up your phone.
Look.
After
Will it be a tragedy, love story
triumph or mystery?
The story doesn’t close when the lights come up. Exclusive content. Follow-up threads. Interviews with the cast and creative team. And if Gothpera returns — a world that remembers what you chose, and what happened because of it.
