What do we do when something terrible happens in front of us?

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The audience arrives for a puppet show.

The welcome is warm; there is even popcorn.

Then a puppet is thrown to its death.

Masked puppeteers begin executing puppets, one by one, while the audience stands in the middle of the action.

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Small hints suggest that something could be done—

but nobody tells the audience how to respond.

People confront the puppeteers, sometimes aggressively, or try to stop the show altogether. Viewers rescue puppets, bring the “dead” back to life, or sometimes, even join the puppeteers in killing them.

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Each audience transforms the performance. 

One evening becomes a silent tragedy; another unfolds like an action thriller, full of rescue attempts and suspense, and in another - the same events become absurdly funny.​

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Somewhere between theatre, a game and a social experiment, Visiting Hour is Over explores civil courage, what it means for a puppet to die, and how the audience itself can be manipulated and animated.