With mall madness and consumerism at its all-time yearly frenzy, there may be no better antidote than Theatre for Living’s Corporations in our Heads. Their newest interactive stage project, fresh back in town from a tour of Alberta, looks at how brands tell us what to buy, how to feel, and basically who to be. The show, by the company formerly known as Headlines Theatre, starts out by asking audience members to share experiences where they realized a corporate message was getting into their head and affecting their behaviour. The audience chooses the story it wants to enact, and then facilitator David Diamond helps put it to stage—complete with an audience member giving living, breathing form to a brand and its messaging. (Participation is voluntary.) The show is hitting a number of community settings, starting with Gordon Neighbourhood House on Wednesday (December 4), Gallery Gachet on Thursday (December 5), and the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre on Friday (December 6); Saturday (December 7) it’s at SFU Harbour Centre and Sunday (December 8) it’s at Café Deux Soleils.