After all the election debates and coverage, most people will be glad to see the back of their ballot paper and be done with it for another five years.

But for those who can remember where they were when Tony Blair got the nod from Her Majesty in 2005, and for whom the night is an event to be enjoyed and deconstructed, Without Planning Permission: Actors V Spectators is an improv show that reacts to the evening’s events then dissects them a night later.

This year’s campaigning has been billed as truly exceptional, and the Fluxx- produced show has a similar claim.

“The show takes interactive per- formance into a new dimension,” company director and producer Chris Johnson says. “Many shows claim to be unique – this one really is.”

Featuring up to 20 improvisors, two- thirds of whom come from Brighton, including the award-winning Maydays collective, Fluxx takes interactive performance to a new dimension and eschews traditional improv techniques.

Where normally the audience would throw an idea to a performer to run with in an orthodox setting, Without Planning Permission involves a series of one-to-one encounters between performers and audience.

The audience can alter the evening’s trajectory by interacting with the performers at each Hanbury Club’s table, which will take the form of different “present time and day” locations such as a Tarot reader’s tent, private homes, an MP’s house, a park bench.

Chris explains the logistics.

“When you arrive you get a card, which tells you the rules. If you sit down at an empty table, a performer will come to that table to engage with you as if you were something in the life of the character played by the performer.

“You can choose to watch and observe or you can engage in dialogue. If you do the latter you start to influence how that character is behaving. It may be short but it might go for ten to 15 minutes or longer. You can then get up and go to another table or watch other interactions take place.”

He says there is no written story, no script. The characters and their worlds have been developed in rehearsal. They have relationships, dilemmas and histories. One character, for example, who has voted Labour all his life is going to be voting Lib Deb. He is distraught about it because of what it means for his identity and his own view of himself.

What actually happens at the tables has a starting point, but there is not necessarily an end or conclusion. The other actors don’t know what is happening at other character’s tables, but some characters are linked. There will be live TV coverage of the election developments and a definite comedy element.

Chris decided to time this format, which Fluxx honed in Warwick where he has a fellowship at the university, with the election because there will be a stronger sense of connectedness between the characters’ private worlds and what’s happening nationally.

“We’re very interested in the link between personal journeys and the public world,” he says. “The big themes being worked through on a national stage and the private dilemmas people experience.

It’s about making a connection between those things.”