Commissioned by the National Theatre.
Made by Rabbit with the help of Coney.
Jun 06 - Sep 06.

Rabbit’s friend Jenny Blenheim works as an usher at the National Theatre. She’s seen and heard some strange things in the foyers. She finds a fragment of a ticket with the logo NTT – why the extra T? – and then disappears. Rabbit breaks into the printing of the National’s brochure to leave a sign for the curious to get in touch and help find Jenny.

A postcard from Rabbit

Meanwhile Dr Misnuneris is a mishap phenomenologist and looking for research volunteers to note the spate of mishaps plaguing performances at the National. Is there a connection?

An observer’s guide to Mishap Phenomenology

Rabbit: NTT was a 6-week adventure in around and about the National Theatre and its shadow, weaving together a mini-adventure through the foyers, a séance with a shadow actor channelled through the bust of Olivier, clues embedded in the foyers, soundtracks and performances in the theatre, online hauntings, and the true story of Sir Ralph Richardson’s Rocket. For the finale, several hundred players gathered beneath Somerset House at 7.23pm waiting for a signal from Rabbit. It came at 7.30pm when the illuminated sign at the front of the building suddenly read ‘Hello, this is Rabbit’ with instructions to tune into a radio play broadcast from the shadow of the National Theatre, players casting themselves into the broadcast to foil a dastardly plot of shadow actors with the help of the kidnapped Jenny and the shadow Mr Kingsway (voiced by Simon Russell Beale) all culminating on the rooftop of the building.

020 7452 3789 is the still-working telephone number of the box-office to the NTT

Rabbit: NTT was an audience development initiative commissioned by the National Theatre to bring its summer outdoor audience indoors. 100 hardcore players and 500 more all told discovered and took the most exciting route into the National Theatre, to spooky events happening throughout the summer, to digging into the history of the building online, to performances they would never otherwise likely have attended, guided by online exchanges with the mysterious Rabbit.