text: It took a painfully awkward time for the actors to realise what was going on: the guest was under house arrest
  Every apartment theatre company has its stories of awkwardness and adventure. A group called Trainingspot RePlay performs a jagged adaption of Richard Linklater’s 2001 film Tape in private homes. The piece was chosen for the questions it poses. “Should I feel guilty if a victim doesn’t remember an event?” actor Tibor Boda asks. “For how long should we be punished for our sins, not according to the law, but morally?” The production starts by having the audience contemplate an empty space, which means the actors have to hide beforehand. In the autumn of 2018, some people who hired Trainingspot RePlay got lost on a forest walk; the actors ended up huddling in an outdoor pantry for over an hour before they were finally able to begin. Another time, they hid successfully from the audience — but the hosts’ dogs found them. “There were these little dogs around and we were talking about all these horrible things,” Boda recalls.