MeatSPACE Theatre presents Mind The Lag, a multisensory performance piece that explores (dis)connection in the digital age, welcoming the dawning of a new era in theatre-making and performance techniques by blurring the origin of the live event.  

Utilising international performance spaces and mediated images, a digital avatar is born out of cyberspace and into the meatspace. Can an ‘avatar’ achieve agency outside the computerised world? As the audience watches these avatars acquire ever more human processing power, will they escape the productivity the matrix demands, or will they discover agency to escape to the unknown? 

New skin, new muscles, new limbs, a spine and a semi-functional digestive system are not the only things our avatars will discover as they explore captivity, consciousness, and connection. 

Remember, stay true and be free. Meet you in the meatspace!

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THE TEAM

DEVISING: Gaurav Singh Nijjer  /  Laura Lounge / Arthur C. H. Pai  / Hector Huang  

 PERFORMANCE:  
Arthur C. H. Pai / Gaurav Singh Nijjer / Laura Lounge  

 DIRECTION: Laura Lounge  

 TECHNICAL DIRECTION: Gaurav Singh Nijjer 

  SCRIPT: Hector Huang / Laura Lounge  

  COSTUME: Esme Lowrey  

 LIGHTING: Carly Altberg / Mari Katsuno  

 SCENIC: Mari Katsuno / Laura Lounge  

 SOUND / SCENT: Laura Lounge  

  MOVEMENT DIRECTION: Antonietta Mazzei  

 PRODUCTION SUPPORT: Anna Smith / Hector Huang  

 ACADEMIC MENTORSHIP: Ada Mukhina 

  DEVISING CONSULTING : Alex Hutson / Sam Kioni Roberts / Dana McMillan / Esme Lowrey / Carly Altberg / Mari Katsuno / Antonietta Mazzei 

 Special Thanks to Lynne Kendrick / Nohar Lazarovich / Anna Smith / Alan Fielden / Maja Milatovic-Ovadia / Alex Hutson / Nick Wood / Joseph Parslow / Malachy Orozco / TSD & Media Department at RCSSD / CLUNK Theatre / Trevor White / Lauren Stone-Symes / Pei-Yu Huang / Advanced Theatre Practice Class of 2021/22.