DISNOV_XR_2000
AUGMENTED IMMERSIVE THEATRE
· 2025-2028
is a performed lecture on the ideology of Silicon Valley. A keynote-performer wearing an XR headset plays Elisabeth, a speaker who believes in what she sells, while most of the headset's interactivity is simulated live from the control booth. The lecture promotes CRANE (Couche de Réalité Augmentée Neuro-Émotionnelle / Neuro-Emotional Augmented Reality Layer), a fictional ecosystem that promises to augment live performance through XR.
No headset is handed out to the audience: the whole theatre becomes the headset. Worn by the performer, it drives the set, the light and the sound. As it shifts from passthrough to mixed and virtual reality, the audience is given her point of view, then deprived of it. The keynote slowly cracks, and the headset turns into a mask that puts her in touch with the ghosts of a life and of a century: a father lost at sea, a dead business partner, an old friend in the control booth who never answers. Here, technology does not augment theatre. Theatre reveals what technology is made of.
FORMAT80 min (target) · premiere planned for 2028
IN CREATION
Work-in-progress, Comédie de Reims CDN, INTERCAL program, 26.06.2026
Residencies: La Comédie de Reims CDN and L’Antre-Peaux, Bourges (2026)
No headset is handed out to the audience: the whole theatre becomes the headset. Worn by the performer, it drives the set, the light and the sound. As it shifts from passthrough to mixed and virtual reality, the audience is given her point of view, then deprived of it. The keynote slowly cracks, and the headset turns into a mask that puts her in touch with the ghosts of a life and of a century: a father lost at sea, a dead business partner, an old friend in the control booth who never answers. Here, technology does not augment theatre. Theatre reveals what technology is made of.
FORMAT80 min (target) · premiere planned for 2028
IN CREATION
Work-in-progress, Comédie de Reims CDN, INTERCAL program, 26.06.2026
Residencies: La Comédie de Reims CDN and L’Antre-Peaux, Bourges (2026)
DIRECTION
Adelin Schweitzer
VISUAL ARTIST
Guangli Liu
SOUND ARTIST
Mathieu Pernot
TEXT
Lancelot Hamelin
PERFORMER
Angie Pict
DRAMATURGY
Emmanuelle Raynaut
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Crossed Lab
PARTNERS
Le Lieu Unique, Stereolux,
L’Antre-Peaux, Le Cube Garges
SUPPORTS
Ambivalences Program (Stereolux Station Mir / ]interstice[ Maintenant Festival / Electroni[k]), Comédie de Reims CDN - Intercal, PEPR ICCARE, Onboarding Pass - Scènes Augmentées (France 2030)
Adelin Schweitzer
VISUAL ARTIST
Guangli Liu
SOUND ARTIST
Mathieu Pernot
TEXT
Lancelot Hamelin
PERFORMER
Angie Pict
DRAMATURGY
Emmanuelle Raynaut
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Crossed Lab
PARTNERS
Le Lieu Unique, Stereolux,
L’Antre-Peaux, Le Cube Garges
SUPPORTS
Ambivalences Program (Stereolux Station Mir / ]interstice[ Maintenant Festival / Electroni[k]), Comédie de Reims CDN - Intercal, PEPR ICCARE, Onboarding Pass - Scènes Augmentées (France 2030)