Strange Tales 聊斋
Our expertise was enlisted in the captivating immersive theatrical production of Strange Tales 聊斋, where we served as video designers and projection specialists. Our role was to craft mesmerising projections that created moments of wonder and strange magic.
A collaboration between the renowned immersive theatre company Grid Iron and the Traverse Theatre, the production demanded bold innovation. Using motion capture and 3D character design, we created a monstrous digital character for the thrilling finale of Magical Arts. By capturing real martial arts movements and projection mapping onto scrim material, we conjured the illusion of the creature materialising and vanishing on stage, enabling actor Pauline Lockhart to interact with it dynamically from multiple angles.
Our Role
Video Production
Storytelling
Artwork
A strange & fantastical narrative
Pu Songling, the 17th-century author of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, a compendium of 431 tales of the supernatural which, on publication, 50 years after his death, acquired a Brothers Grimm-like status in China.
Credits
Client
Traverse Theatre
Co-Produced
Grid Iron Theatre - Traverse Theatre
Directed By
Grid Iron Theatre
Set Design
Karen Tennent
Prop Design
Fergus Dunnet
Creative Technologists
Bright Side Studios
Video Artists
Bright Side Studios