Memoriam – Southwark Playhouse Borough
How does our history get passed on and who is in charge of keeping them alive? Memoriam is a company buying real memories, extracting them and making them available on their software to experience. This is a full body sensory experience of any memory you choose be it childbirth, swimming with dolphins or even piloting a plane. But when the numbers are looking low for next year, top boss Chris (Ben Wiggins) looks to top buyer Rachel (Rachel Barry) for the ‘Premium asset’ she has within her own family.
Memoriam is stark and brutal in the reflection of the human need for content and poses an important question: do we use VR to reflect the true nature of human history’s most horrific moments in order to feel the true scale of the event.
Rachel’s grandmother Rivka (Beverley Klein) is the ...