Enter a richly poetic experience, submit to the caring hands of others and contemplate your mortality. Set in a hospital ward, The Infirmary invites you to give yourself over to a uniquely sensorial encounter that considers life and death as science and mystery.

Can we ever be ready to die? How do we imagine our final hours? What might we feel or think at the threshold between life and death? Is there some value in practising for death?

Intimate, immersive and participatory, The Infirmary elicits strong, tender, awkward and revelatory moments within a ‘total care environment’. The first part of Triage’s Death Trilogy, The Infirmary examines the taboos of dependency, illness and dying – elements of the everyday that we rarely allow ourselves to reflect on.

The Infirmary requires courage, an act of trust. Hovering between life and death, between the senses and flights of the imagination – the reward is both vulnerability and insight.

“There are no lulls, no blips… nowhere does the confected mystery of the piece fade or falter…” RealTime, on Hotel Obscura