The Fahrenheit Alliance V
2025. August 18 [Mon] --- 24 [Sun]
10:30 / 12:00 / 14:00 / 15:30 / 17:00 / 18:30 / 20:00 (BST)
C venues | C alto (bow) | Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL
*Only ONE guest is allowed per mission.
*Please make a reservation in advance.
*Running time : 40 min
Fahrenheit Alliance V is an intimate,
one-on-one multimedia piece inspired by the novel Fahrenheit 451.
Based on Kyle Yamada’s play, this new immersive experience leads you into a world where words survive through spoken transmission.
As you lie on a bed, distant landscapes and voices surround you. Wrapped in a quilt, you discover another’s memories through a multimedia montage of whispers, warmth, and deep personal connection.
But this is more than a performance－it invites you to join the Alliance.
INVITATION
We invite you to join The Fahrenheit Alliance.
That is why we bring this performance to life for you.
The purpose of this alliance is simple:
To receive words passed down from a distant someone,
And to deliver them onward to another distant someone.
Tonight, we ask you to take part in this quiet relay.
Through this performance,
I will take words and landscapes sent from afar,
—Let them pass through me,—And offer them into your hands.
Then, once you leave the theater,
It will be your turn—
Record the words and landscapes in your own voice,
And send them back to me.
I will carry them onward, traveling once more to place them
in the hands of another.
This alliance exists
To carve openings in the walls that divide us,
To let the wind pass through,
To cool a world that is growing too hot.
Before the fire rises to Fahrenheit 451,
Before the flames consume the words.
PROCESS OF PERFORMANCE
Preparation
Lie down on the provided bed in the audience area
and cover yourself with the blanket.
First Act
On the other side of the window, an actor lies on another bed.
Observe as the actor is immersed in a distant landscape,
receiving "words" carried by voices from afar.
(Intermission)
Second Act
Now, you will be immersed in the landscapes
seen by people in a faraway.
Listen to the "words" spoken by the voices of people
somewhere beyond your reach.
After the Performance
When you return home, it will be your turn---
Please record the "words" in your own voice and
film the landscape in front of you at that moment,
--- and send both recordings back to me.
The Future (Toward the Next Performance)
The words and landscapes you return will be edited and
integrated into the next performance, The Fahrenheit Alliance Ⅵ .
In this way, your voice and vision will be passed on
and heard by someone far away.
WARNING AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Audience participation is encouraged during this performance.
Please note the following.
1. This is a one-to-one performance
— one actor performing to a one-person audience.
2. The audience is invited to lie down on a quilt-covered bed to
watch the performance.
3. The audience seat, a bed, will be monitored with a camera
solely for the purpose of creating realtime visual effects.
(The performance will not be recorded or made public.)
If you have any questions,
please feel free to contact us via email
TICKET INFORMATION
Venue | C venues | C alto (bow)
Address | Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL
Ticket | Full Price £20 / Concession £18 / Under 18s £16
* Only one guest is allowed per session.
* Please make a reservation in advance before attending.
Date | 18 [Mon] to 24 [Sun] August, 2025
Performance Starts |
10:30 / 12:00 / 14:00 / 15:30 / 17:00 / 18:30 / 20:00 (BST)
* Doors open 10 minutes before the show starts.
* Performance lasts about 40 minutes.
HISTORY
Since 2020, we have been performing The Fahrenheit Alliance as a continuous, oral storytelling —first as an online production, and then adapted for in-person performance You can follow the history of this journey through the links here.
-----The year is 2020.
Actors, confined to their homes by the pandemic, organize a secret, invisible alliance.
Kyle Yamada’s play, The Fahrenheit Alliance, poses a secret way of gathering during an emergency time when we are forbidden to assemble in one place.
In this performance, actors trapped in their room by Covid-19 organize a secret, invisible alliance on the cloud, transcending walls and distance.
(The piece examines the act of spinning words about someone far away, while cocooned in one's own home like a silkworm.)
One participant records a voice for someone else, that someone listens and performs along with the recording.
The performer then records their voice for another person, thus passing the baton....
----Then, in 2023, as the world entered the "post-Covid era,"
we adapted this secret online gathering into an in-person assembly.
Words were no longer just transmitted digitally
—they traveled with us, carried from one place to another, infused with the voices and landscapes of each location.
CREDIT
| Written by | | | Kyle Yamada [Allergen Theatre] |
| Directed and Produced by | | | Mitsuko Hirai [Hirai-Kikaku] |
| Technical Direction by | | | Rob Moreno [Media Kobo] |
| Stage design and Video Editing by | | | Xu Wenfei |
| Music by | | | Mayumi Ishida |
| Website Design by | | | Yuka Kurosawa [Hidokei] |
| Voice | | | Tamaki Kobayashi / Takaki Terakoshi / Manami Maeda |
| V | -- | Voice | | | Audience in Tokyo |
| -- | Mediator | | | Mitsuko Hirai | |
| -- | Body | | | Audience in Edinburgh | |
| IV | -- | Voice | | | Mitsuko Hirai |
| -- | Body | | | Audience in Tokyo | |
| III | -- | Voice | | | Tamaki Kobayashi |
| -- | Body | | | Mitsuko Hirai | |
| II | -- | Voice | | | Takaki Terakoshi |
| -- | Body | | | Tamaki Kobayashi | |
| I | -- | Voice | | | Manami Maeda |
| -- | Body | | | Takaki Terakoshi |
Organized by | Hirai-Kikaku and Media Kobo ( Japan )
REVIEWS
EdFringeReview★★★★
Imaginatively crafted and skillfully performed, The Fahrenheit Alliance III delves into the depths of what teaching, learning, isolation, and connectivity can mean for us.
★★★★★
The result is truly breathtaking, and unlike any form of theatre to have existed before lockdown.The footage feels familiar yet unfamiliar, animated shapes and body parts twisting together in an almost psychedelic manner.
★★★★
Measured movements & melancholic vocals prove uniquely immersive.