Draw Me Close: Discover life inside an NFB animated short in this cutting-edge yet nostalgic VR/theatre hybrid at Soulpepper
, a cutting-edge and yet nostalgic theatre-VR hybrid now having its Canadian premiere at Soulpepper, is like being sucked into a classic National Film Board of Canada animated short.
You are seeing a version of Tannahill’s memories, as drawn by the late artist Teva Harrison, but you also have a certain amount of agency to look around and indeed move around in them. In the so-called real world, Tannahill’s mother has cancer and was given two years to live about five years ago – a diagnosis that has spurred on a number of the artist’s creative endeavors about mortality in recent years, from the dance piece. Happily, she has defied the odds and will, in fact, be attending the show and inhabiting her son’s memories of her and his imagining of her eventual death.
The pandemic has accelerated theatre creators’ interest in what is now being dubbed XR – a catch-all term that covers virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. Indeed, later this month, the second annual Performance and XR Conference is being convened by Kingston’s Single Thread Theatre Company and Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre.shows that XR does not mean pandemic-proof at all; it’s actually quite an intimate and participatory experience.
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