The Offie Award-nominated Aslant Theatre Company will present their debut digital works, Echo/Chamber, as part of The Living Record’s line-up at Brighton Fringe from 28 May-27 June.

Partnering with director and theatre maker Oliver McFadden and inspired by The Bacchae, Echo/Chamber is a contemporary story about the clash of opposites: opposite viewpoints, ideals, and lifestyles.

Successful conservative businessman Paul is confronted with a dangerous realization that threatens his reputation and calls into question his whole world view. The reason behind it? A chance encounter with his polar opposite: the unapologetically queer, anarchist liberal Drew.

As each audience member takes a different path through the experience, the piece asks them to evaluate whose side they are on in an attempt to highlight their own biases. Corporate greed, family secrets, prejudice, and sexuality all come to the fore in this bold and feisty adaptation, incorporating the audience’s decisions into a fluid narrative, dramaturged and edited by Aida Rocci.

Co-creator of the piece, Antonia Georgieva, said: “Creating this digital piece has opened up a whole new world for how we develop, distribute and think about our work as a company. More and more hybrid forms are emerging, and it’s an incredibly exciting process to witness and be a part of as the very identity of theatre is shifting away from the purely analog.”

Echo/Chamber explores a hybrid form that borrows from the vocabulary of both film and theatre to make this a memorable interactive experience that actively engages the audience in the story. Seeking to discover the nuance in an increasingly polarized world, Echo/Chamber puts our individual moral compass in the spotlight.

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