What’s stirring
The Whimsy House
Through 14 Sept · West Asheville
Mission Briefings, Vol. II
Opens 3 Oct · by post
Office of Mischief & Whimsy
Winter 2026 · citywide
Work that puts you inside the frame.
Walk-through installations, letters that arrive at your house, briefings handed to strangers, small ceremonies staged in ordinary rooms. We work at the scale of one person at a time, then repeat it a hundred times.
Nothing here is a spectacle you watch from a seat.
Visit the library →Most things begin with an envelope.
Join the mailing and you will be told when a door opens near you. Tickets, where they exist, are limited by design. Some things are free and simply have to be found.
Sit at the writing desk →The collection.
Dates, doors, and what to expect.
Each bloom holds an event. Descend toward the centre.
Scroll to descend — arrows work tooA small workshop for large feelings.
WhimsyLab started because we kept making things that did not fit in a theatre — pieces that needed a corridor, a letterbox, or a stranger willing to play along.
We come out of immersive and participatory performance, and we have spent years learning the unglamorous half of it: how to look after people in the dark, how to write a rule someone will actually follow, how to build a room that can be struck in a night and rebuilt the next week.
The lab part is literal. Most of what we make is prototyped badly in front of a small audience before it is made properly for a larger one.
The teller opens; each opening reveals a chair
Four hands, at least.
Watch the fortune teller open and close — or pick a name. Three of these chairs are still warm from whoever sits in them next.
The writing desk.
We thank you for your intention,
and will be in touch.
A prototype for now — hello@whimsylab.org reaches us directly.
Questions, access requests, anything about a booking.
Presspress@whimsylab.orgImages, interviews, review tickets.
Commissionsstudio@whimsylab.orgFestivals, venues, civic partners.
If you need an access accommodation for any event, say so here and it will be arranged quietly. It never affects your booking, and you do not have to explain why.