What if we were able to predict the future? How does it feel to awaken a forgotten memory? Is the future predetermined? Can rewriting the past bring happiness? These were some of the questions raised in four short VR plays presented at the Mashiro Small Theater last week under the...
I want to share a few thoughts on a VR performance I saw recently called: Soultopia. It was created by Saeborg, an artist whose performances often use latex suits and large latex inflatables in the form of farm animals. Saeborg’s work is both playful and hard hitting in its critique...
One of the most well-known lines in Shakespeare’s plays is Bernardo’s question at the beginning of Hamlet: “Who’s there?” Who is that ‘who’ and where is that ‘there’? It is a doorway onto doubt. But it is also a question that cuts quickly to the ontological core of theatre. “Who’s...
