Unchain Me review – Dostoevsky inspires secret mission on the streets of Brighton

Brighton festival
dreamthinkspeak's timely new production on inequality and abuse of political power offers its audience a choice: complicity or compliance?

We are instructed to meet at a secret Brighton location for this site-specific show by the company dreamthinkspeak. For some of us that invites the usual anxieties: when will we be told of our meeting place? (Four hours beforehand when the e-ticket arrives, in my case.) What is the show about? Why are we asked to register on a website called ARK-22?

The whys and what-fors are not immediately answered when we receive an induction into the night's events, which are inspired by Dostoevsky's novel The Possessed and are created and directed by Tristan Sharps. We will be travelling in small groups called cells", and will receive instructions via little laptops that we wear around our necks.

Unchain Me continues until 12 June.