Resusci Anne

Um, okay.

So the next one is another show called Rescue Annie, which I made with, uh, Lauren Jones in 2021.

So Rescue Annie was a show, uh, which started out as a, an exploration around deepfakes and, uh, um, and, uh, losing your bodily autonomy, where we had planned to bring an audience member up on stage and, uh, kind of deepfake them, so steal their identity and all of those kind of things.

And then COVID happened, so we weren't allowed touch our audience or come anywhere near our audience.

So one of the, the kind of design questions that we were thinking about was how do you physically connect, or how do you connect with an audience when you can't touch them? So we developed this show where we created, uh, so it was a headphone show, um, where this, uh, this is a Resusci Anne doll, um, so one of those CPR dolls, and within the head we had put microphones, uh, or sorry, uh, yeah, microphones, uh, in the ears, which allowed us to create a kind of binaural quality within the, within the, um, within this character on stage.

Um, so, like, a big part of, like, technology and working with technology is that, like, often it doesn't work, and you discover what the limitations are, and those limitations actually become kind of interesting practical problems that, uh, allow you to think about how the work might develop or what might happen next.

So this next show, this is Constantine.

This directly was developed out of a kind of, uh, spitballing of, like, what were the things that we felt didn't work with R- uh, Rescue Annie.