Kaleider’s Requiem is a theatre performance combining large scale kinetic installation and an original musical score.
Devised, designed, and performed by the team that created Arch (2024), Requiem asks: what rituals do we need to face the moment we are living? And when we come together, what will we choose to build?
In a world strange yet familiar, at an undefinable time, a group of people are constructing something. With a song of voice and breath, and the labour of human bodies, a jumble of metal becomes a giant ribcage, rising from the ground.
Suddenly, it comes to extraordinary, uncanny life. A metaphor for our world: organic and mechanical, fragile and strong, dead yet breathing. Requiem invites us to occupy a tension between the things we create and control, and their finite outcomes. To lean, together, into the uncertainty of hope.
Kaleider’s Requiem is conceived and directed by Seth Honnor with music by Verity Standen.
Premiered in 2026 & Available for Touring
We are thrilled to announce Requiem’s premiere tour in 2026.
Would you like to bring Requiem to your festival, venue, context, or site? Please write to Executive Producer Katie Keeler at katie@kaleider.com for more information.
What To Expect
Requiem lasts about 1 hour 20 minutes.
Audiences are welcome to sit, stand, or move around. Audiences can come and go as they like.
There are breathing sounds and gentle vocal music. The performers use tools, including impact drivers. Sometimes there are loud noises from those tools.
Access
Download the following documents to learn more about what happens in Requiem and what to expect:
Arch is an attempt to build a freestanding arch, made two thirds of concrete and one third of ice.
Deceptive in its simplicity, Arch unfolds as a surprising emotional journey. An exquisite combination of breath, heart, and muscle entangle with the perpetual inevitability of collapse.
“Time stood still when Kaleider performed the piece ‘Arch’ last night. 🧊 🔥 A truly magical experience.” – Aarhus Festuge
Touching audiences with themes of death, renewal, and hope, Arch points towards the extraordinary, yet flawed, systems humans create: language, economies, architectures, democracies – and, inevitably, to the impact of these systems on our ecological system, and on ourselves.
Known for building temporary communities in his work, Director Seth Honnor creates a world of human endeavour, hope, and loss. Arch gathers our minds and hearts, inviting us to bear witness to something we cannot command. Like in Seth’s other work, Arch gently asks questions of all of us, of our roles and our responsibilities.
“Arch invites you to be present with it, and in the slowing down to be with it – your imagination, thoughts and feelings become a part of the experience.” – Audience quote
In what could be described as a kind of “installation opera,” a languageless score by Verity Standen holds and moves us through a relentlessly physical performance; at times meditative, and at others arresting and highly charged.
We can tell you what happens in this work: you will witness two people attempt to build a freestanding arch in ice and concrete whilst a beguiling vigil of voices holds your attention. What is less straightforward is to tell you how it will make you feel – only that it will.
“Yesterday will be one of the highlights of my time at the [National Theatre] studio and something I’ll remember for the rest of my life!
It was utterly captivating second to second, and theatre in its cleanest and most profound distillation.” – Rachel Twigg, Head of Studio, National Theatre Studio
Arch 2024 Tour Diary
Arch premiered in 2024 to 9 sites across 7 countries, including: the summit of a mountain, a busy city centre square, the stage of a regional theatre, a residential block, and a vast beach on the Northern Sea.
Find out more in this photo blog, published by In Situ, the European platform for artistic creation in public space:
Would you like to bring Arch to your festival, venue, context, or site in 2025/26? Please write to Executive Producer Katie Keeler at katie@kaleider.com for more information.
Arch will be different each time it is presented. We are very happy to customise access documents for each promotor’s venue, location and language.
Credits
Arch is a Kaleider Production
Conceived and Directed by Seth Honnor
Executive Producer: Katie Keeler
Musical Director: Verity Standen
Dramaturg: Tanuja Amarasuriya
Movement Consultant: Laila Diallo
Lighting Designer: Nao Nagai
Production Manager: Jay Kerry
Producers: Irene Urrutia, Jocelyn Mills
Installation Design & Engineering: Seth Honnor, Jay Kerry, Irene Urrutia
Performers: Aminita Francis, David Ridley, Ellian Showering, Irene Urrutia, Kate Huggett, Kate Smith, Katie Keeler, Miryam Solomon, Nao Nagai, Phil King, Seth Honnor, Verity Standen
Arch is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Arch research and development is supported by IN SITU, the European platform for artistic creation in public space, in the frame of the project UN(COMMON) SPACES, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, and supported by Freedom Festival Arts Trust.
Arch was developed with the support of the National Theatre’s Generate programme.
Arch is backed by individual donors who supported Kaleider to make and bring this artwork into the world.
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A group of complete strangers has 60 minutes to agree how to spend a pot of real cash. If the Players run out of time, then the money rolls over to the next show. If they agree, then they get to take the money away and spend it.
But, the watching audience can buy their way in at any moment, right up until the last second, and that can change everything…
★★★★
The Stage
Tense, unpredictable and resonant, with the potential for sudden reversals and radical acts of kindness
★★★★
The Daily Telegraph
A fiendish clever show, that tests your generosity
★★★★
The Guardian
This deceptively simple piece is definitely on the money. It turns conversation into urgent, playful theatre
Matt Trueman
The best piece of game-theatre I’ve encountered
Lyn Gardner
As much drama in the unfolding scenario as there is in any play you've ever seen
★★★★
North West End UK
A playful urgent piece of interactive theatre
★★★★
Broadway World
My faith in strangers was restored
The Age Melbourne
The Money could be the greatest reality TV show that hasn’t happened yet
The Money has been performed on 5 continents…
…and in some of the world’s most prestigious venues including Sydney Opera House, UK Houses of Parliament, Lagos City Hall, Lisbon City Hall, Melbourne’s Victoria Parliament, City of London’s Guildhall, London’s County Hall, Tianjin’s Grand Theatre and many more.
How to Play
Become a Player by donating as much as you can. Work with other Players to decide what to spend the group’s money on. You have 1 hour to come to a decision. If you don’t decide unanimously in the allotted time you relinquish your privilege to spend the money and the money rolls over to the next group of Players.
If you’re the quiet observing type you can become a Silent Witness and watch as the group of Players attempt to decide how to spend the money they’ve donated. And if you want to voice your opinion you can always become a Player and buy your way in.
Spend the money on whatever you want. Be as creative as you like.
Credits
A Kaleider Production
Conceived and Directed by Seth Honnor
Collaborating Artist: Alice Tatton-Brown
Touring production Manager: Jay Kerry
Current and past performers: Nao Nagai, Laila Diallo, Irene Xochitl Urrutia, Lucy Cassidy, Seeta Patel, Gemma Paintin, Jessica MacDonald, Olivia Winteringham, Angie Bual, Kelly Marie Miller, Ria Hartley, Hanora Kamen, Alice Tatton-Brown, Frankie Snowdon, Peter Vanderford, Jonny Rowden, Emily Williams (also producer 2013 – 2016), and the late Paul Bull.
