Featuring some of the UK's top dancers and created by members of Jasmin Vardimon Company, WHIST is a dance performance that you experience in virtual reality. Read more …
WHIST explores the notion of unconsciousness through the dreams, fears and desires of a family, characters of which are inspired by Sigmund Freud’s real case studies.
Merging dance, physical theatre and sculpture with interactive technologies, WHIST immerses you in a surreal world, exploring a story from one of 76 different perspectives.
WHIST is a glimpse of the future, for sure, and aside from a steaming up of goggles and the occasional difficulty getting the clips to trigger, it passes without a hitch, but it’s an experiment to try, rather than a fully satisfying theatrical experience.
Those in search of enlightenment have all this week and next to face up to their darkest thoughts.
Festival Square Theatre, Edinburgh from Friday July 21, 2017, until Thursday August 3, 2017. Times vary--check with box office..
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