Imaginative Expression
Question: How are we to treat others?
Answer: There are no others
-Ramana Maharishi
The seemingly unthinkable has occurred.
We have become those people from the remote places we see on our screens. Thrust into crisis and driven from our homes into uncomfortable proximity with others whom we had pretended to happily co-exist with but perhaps preferred to ignore, inside the Muster Station, our fragile prejudices and assumptions are exposed.
When wind and snow fill the sky and the fire has grown cold, relight the coals, warm the wine, and turn up the wick of the lamp. We enter these tales in the shadows of the night but hopefully emerge into daylight.
Written in China centuries ago, Pu Songling’s Strange Tales are now adapted for the stage by the acclaimed immersive theatre company Grid Iron in co-production with the Traverse Theatre.
The Ancient Greeks saw the world comprised of four elements – Earth, Air, Fire, and Water (with Aristotle throwing in a fifth, Aether, for good measure) that were thought to explain the nature and complexity of all matter and to be essential to life. Times have changed. We now have atomic theory, with atoms classified into more than a hundred chemical elements. Yet echoes of the old theory reverberate to this day and scientists admit we still don’t know everything; there is still some mystery in our world.
A fantastical collage of sound and theatre starring an off-kilter cabaret diva. This live performance and multimedia installation extends the reach of musical composition into the visual and the theatrical, it is a mysterious and glittering experiment.
Come to the spectacular anti-spectacle noise cabaret! Jane Deasy’s new composition is a work of composed theatre, where a myriad of instruments engulf the audience in an immersive music performance.
Together with Studio Louter, M developed a unique and innovative visitor experience for the HoloLens: when standing in front of twelve first-rate artworks you get to see spectacular 3D images and animations.
How do you have sex on stage? How do you even have sex?
To try and find an answer, each night, two brand new performers tell a story of desire, betrayal, and loneliness. They have never rehearsed together or read the script. They are strangers.
But they are not alone — to help and guide them they are joined on stage by an Intimacy Director, trained in the art of teaching people how to touch. So you can rest assured that the sex is safe. It is consensual. And it is good.
Set on the open ocean in 1900, Age of Sail is the story of William Avery (Ian McShane), an old sailor adrift and alone in the North Atlantic. When Avery reluctantly rescues Lara (Cathy Ang), who has mysteriously fallen overboard, he finds redemption and hope in his darkest hours.
Enjoy the VR experience on mobile by downloading the Google Spotlight Stories app. Also available on Steam, Viveport, and Youtube.
Emmy Award-winning platform, Google Spotlight Stories, presents Son of Jaguar VR. In the most important match of his life, the once mighty masked luchador, Son of Jaguar, faces his legacy, his family, and what it means to be a part of something bigger than himself.
Baobab Studios’ Emmy®-winning VR experience, Baba Yaga, invites viewers to be a main character in a haunting fairytale world completely reimagined. Their choices determine the ending of this story of love, fortitude, and magic. Sometimes a force for evil, sometimes a force for good, the enigmatic witch Baba Yaga (Kate Winslet) uses her powers to stop the villagers whose settlement encroaches upon her enchanted Forest (Jennifer Hudson).
MATRIARCHS AND BUFFALO PULL NO PUNCHES, YET LEAD US WITH CARE
