The Atom Room

3-18 October

By: Philip Braithwaite

Directed By: Blair Purkiss

Sarah and Danny live in Wellington, 150 years in the future where climate change, tectonic shifts and nuclear accidents have wrecked the environment. Sarah secures an engineering job to create a new colony on Mars, and sets off on a long distance journey, leaving Danny behind on Earth. But, the couple decide to stay together using a highly-advanced virtual reality system where couples 'meet' and 'interact' in ways so believable, it might as well be reality itself. Imagine a futuristic version of Zoom, but you can touch, visit, feel, and love. Can a virtual relationship ever compare to the real thing? Or are their hearts doomed to drift apart?