Theatre is a wonderful medium able to touch people at profound levels of experience. As such, it is also a fascinating tool to bring to life things which we cannot see, because they are intangible or because they simply not exist yet (think imaginary scenarios, possible futures etc.).

Our friends at Theater ad Hoc , to put it in their own words,

“make performances about invisible science – current developments in science that can no longer be seen by the naked eye. Developments that have a great influence on our comings and goings. On our near future. Take for instance elementary particles, the building blocks of matter. We are completely made up out of them, yet we can’t see them. What’s more, they behave entirely differently than we could ever possibly imagine. It’s food for thought: the building blocks of our bodies follow a different logic than we do ourselves.

Under the motto Reality is too interesting to leave it to the realists, Theater Adhoc tries literally and figuratively to gain insight into such invisible dimensions by unleashing the imaginative power of the arts upon them.”

Their research-theatre performances have covered topics such as genomics, elementary particles, classification, etc. Their current production is titled “Blueprint: thinking brings illumination”, and is on display, or rather to be experienced on several locations in the Netherlands these days.
It is an interactive installation for one or more visitors at a time, a blueprint for the visualization of the invisible, a sensory experience at the boundaries of thinking and seeing.

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