Eleven Missing Days is a street game about time gone missing designed by IDST! played across Macclesfield.

Concept

Barnaby Festival challenged IDST! to make a performance that was historical [2011 is the 750th anniversary of the town of Macclesfield] and fun for young people.
We discovered that the Earl of Macclesfield had been responsible for changing time! Time! An astoundingly open and useful theme for a street game. Something we can all think about. People came up with all kinds of situations...

Gam e p l a y Teams of 5 players encounter eleven characters unstuck in time across the town. Players gain a day from each of the characters by taking part in a task. When teams have collected all the eleven missing days, they must go to the bell-tower at Christchurch and ring the bells to signal time and win. Teams are competing against each other to be the first group to ring the bells. They have a map and a balloon that they must protect at all times. Teams must not get caught by the time trappers - marshalls/chasers who invade the world and pursue players in certain areas, trying to pop their balloons and get time on their hands.

Eleven Missing Days celebrates the phenomenal moment in history, when in 1752, Britain changed from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar, and 11 days were removed! As a collective imagining, the game asks the question What would happen if time went missing? Using historical accounts and scenarios based on the theme of missing time, 30 local performers embedded across the town, collectively constructed a world in which time had changed. Eleven Missing Days is a hybrid work. Players encounter and take part in pieces of street theatre, but all of these happenings are incorporated into the overall structure of a town-wide chase game.
a new tradition ! - a mass game - a chance for everyone to play together. Evidence of free play was everywhere - You could participate and be immersed. The exhiliration of chasing against the clock and the trappers propelled you along. People kept asking me if wed met before. I was starting to get deja vu.

Eleven Missing Days was performed on Sunday 19th June 2011, at 3.11 pm. It will be played again at future town events. IDST! are commited to the idea of setting more games in Macclesfield. They have created a superpack containing everything needed to make the game. Within it are instructions, maps, game mechanics and ways to construct the world. The whole Eleven Missing Days superpack is available to any group in Macclesfield that wants to play it again. Please contact if you are interested...