Hidden Track - Supporting Material
The Cost of Everything
Trailer
Audience Feedback
Full show (2025 Sharing)
“A quirky, unique and highly entertaining show that will leave audiences in stitches and more informed on the challenges we face in our modern world.”
★★★★★
Jess Dalloway – West End Best Friend
“It is something to satirise and make people laugh.
However, it is quite rare to actually offer the audience constructive and original ideas for solving a crisis in an extremely amusing and entertaining way.”
★★★★★
John Waterhouse – Number 9 Reviews
Benefits Quest
Now in development

BENEFITS QUEST is a hybrid of video gaming and interactive theatre which challenges its audiences to take on one of the world’s most dangerous and treacherous environments – HIS MAJESTY’S BENEFITS SYSTEM.
This anarchic comedy satire will take challengers through the CAVES OF COMPLIANCE, facing the PIP GOBLINS & the MEANS-TEST MEDUSA, and choosing difficulty levels ranging from UNEMPLOYED GRADUATE, to SINGLE MOTHER, to ASYLUM SEEKER.
This unique gaming experience can be played LIVE ON STAGE, and will launch alongside an ONLINE GAME which can be downloaded through online platforms STEAM and ITCH.IO.
We are currently looking for partners to support the creation of this brand new work in AUTUMN 2025/2026, with a view to wider touring in 2027.
Previous Shows/Games
Trailers
Standard:Elite
Drawing the Line
How to Win
Feedback on Hidden Track's previous work:















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★★★★★
'Nobody does political analysis in a light-heartened way quite like Hidden Track.'
Marianna Meloni - Everything Theatre
★★★★★
'Brimming with energy and heart.'
‘An ambitious and talented group of theatre makers, who explore narrative and audience in intriguing ways.’
John McGrath – Artistic Director, Manchester International Festival
'Breaks spine-bristling new ground.'
Roger Foss - The Stage
'Crowd-pleasing style... that dares to challenge the validity of political theatre.'
David Cunningham - Manchester Theatre Awards
Audience Engagement
We surveyed 78.5% of our Standard:Elite audience in 2017-8:
94% felt that the interaction was ‘easy’ or ‘very easy’ to engage with.
74% said that the piece explored the topics raised either ‘effectively’ or ‘very effectively’.
96% told us that the piece had just the right balance of games and storytelling.
55% stated that they only went ot the theatre 2-3 times a year of less.
9.5% went to the theatre once a year or ‘rarely’.
We surveyed 85+ of our Drawing the Line audience in 2019:
90% felt that the interaction was ‘easy’ or ‘very easy’ to engage with.
87% said that the piece explored the topics raised either ‘effectively’ or ‘very effectively’
25% stated that they only went to the theatre 2-3 times a year or less.
8% went to the theatre once a year or ‘rarely’.
79% of our How to Win audience at HOMEMCR had NEVER engaged with that theatre’s work before.
Over 100 tickets sold initially through HOMEMCR’s website
Over 150 original audience suggestions submitted
Over 200 votes recieved on what should happen next
Over 70 audience ideas brought into the game
Over 25,000 unique downloads since on online platforms Steam and itch.io
Full Shows
Standard:Elite
Drawing the Line
Online Games
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