A small group of leading French poets and mathematicians, the OULIPO flood their work with rules and restrictions as a way of breaking into their subconscious minds. Adapting a famous OULIPO constraint, Joe Dunthorne, Tim Clare and Ross Sutherland took up the challenge of the Univocalism – a poem using only one type of vowel. Discipline soon gave way to obsession, and as the rules began to take hold the boys started to find hidden messages in the strangest of places.

Covering everything from Biblical mistranslation to school bullies and former WWE wrestler Mr Perfect, Found in Translation is a quest of arbitrary limits and new frontiers, written in the tradition of Luke Rhineheart’s The Dice Man and Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure: one part literary lecture, one part multimedia performance, and with a hefty dose of cutting-edge satire.