Visit the immersive world of #thedigitalecucumber, where the fusion of multimedia and music theatre explores themes crucial to our era. Delve into the realms of bubbles, media technology, and the courage to dream, believe, and even stumble…

«The Digital Cucumber» is a family performance that addresses economic bubbles, media technological echo chambers, AI, the value of daring to fail, and taking ownership of them. Among other things.

The story follows the development leading up to the launch of “The Digital Cucumber,” an AI that promises to provide answers to humanity’s most pressing questions today, and then beyond—when the project both collapses and takes on new, unforeseen, unstable, and risky forms. The secondary characters in the production are fictional but playfully inspired by real-world figures (Elon Musk, Elizabeth Holmes, Peter Thiel, Richard Sackler, Greta Thunberg, etc.).

Through manipulations of the stage space and live-feed projections, the performers create layer upon layer of narrative and visual stories—both through the «reality» of the performers in the stage space and through visual renderings via projections of fragments of that reality.

We have developed a rich and interactive three-dimensional soundscape (composed by the undersigned in collaboration with Song Circus, Eirik Bekkeheien, and Pål Asle Pettersen). The production also actively employs AV technology (developed in collaboration with Ben Turnbull, Brave New Worlds, and UAL).
Partly theater, partly live cinema—through a playful use of AV/lo-fi video manipulation that effectively allows us to create fictional realities in multiple locations within the stage space. As a contrast to the digital projections, we have chosen to create a stage environment rich in tactile and sensory qualities: colors, shapes, touch, auditory interaction, and psychoacoustics.