- August 2026
Cyclops. Sirens. Scylla. Lotus Easters. Charybdis.
Man Eaters. Seducers. Killers. Drug dealers. Suffocators.
Terrors encountered on a weird nightmare journey.
Desperate men on a desperate journey home.
A surreal, bloodthirsty and violent epic brought to new life in an astonishing new translation and performance by Richard Spaul.
Please note, there is no car parking at the Chapel itself, but car parking is available on nearby streets. There will not be any toilets available at the Chapel, the nearest public toilet is 300 metres. There is a large step into the Chapel.
- October 2022
Odyssey is an extraordinary poem full of atmosphere, character and incident, including the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops; the goddess Circe who turns men into pigs; the Sirens, whose beautiful singing lures men to their deaths and much much more.
in situ:’s new performance, in the atmospheric setting of The Leper Chapel, is full of new exciting approaches and daring experiment, combining eye-catching physical theatre, haunting song and vocal composition and storytelling.
Odyssey Project is a feast for the eye, ear and mind from a theatre company with a fine reputation for site-specific work that is exploratory, intimate and emotionally powerful.
Unlike much of our work, Odyssey Project is a sit-down performance. It lasts approximately 80 minutes with no interval. Please note that there are no toilets on the site.
- August 2019
Hamlet, a man haunted by his dead father. A dialogue with the Dead.
Over its 16-year history, in situ: has produced many remarkable interpretations of Shakespeare. A world of mirrors in Twelfth Night. Fantasy, vaudeville and horror in The Winter’s Tale. The nightmarish world of abused and broken dolls in Macbeth.
In this remarkable solo performance, Richard Spaul brings his unique vocal gifts and powers of characterisation to explore Shakespeare’s great tragedy.
- July 2018
Hamlet, a man haunted by his dead father. A dialogue with the Dead.
in situ:'s exciting new interpretation of one of the greatest plays in the English language thrilled audiences when it debuted for a week in the summer. Join Richard Spaul as Hamlet returns to the Leper Chapel for one night only.
Stripping away the multiple artifices of costume, scenery, supporting actors and much extraneous text, in situ:'s Hamlet is honed into a uniquely rivetting hybrid performance combining theatre and storytelling.
"I’m fascinated by the challenge of performing Hamlet as a solo piece. The title character is often considered one of the supreme theatrical challenges; I fancied the idea of not just doing the character, but performing the whole damn thing on my own."
- July 2018
When Georg Büchner died of typhus in 1837, he left behind him a jumble of papers – almost illegible, blotted, fragmentary, unnumbered, untitled. Unpublished for 40 years and unperformed for nearly a century, Woyzeck burst upon the world in 1913, astonishing audiences with its frightening and uncompromising modernity.
Focussing on social deprivation, domestic violence and the ravages of mental illness, Woyzeck is a play for the 21st Century.
A walkaround performance in Cambridge's Leper Chapel - itself a poignant reminder of the devastating effects of illness and deprivation - in situ:’s Woyzeck employs Physical Theatre, Mask and Chorus to bring out the full power of Buechner’s Expressionist masterpiece of madness and murder.
