We are in an office with cupboards, a large locker and bookshelves in the background. A white woman wearing a loose trouser suit and various drapes and jewelry kneels on top a table. She is looking gleeful, arms above her head, having just thrown torn up papers over her head. The image is awash with pink light.

A close up of a large window with mostly closed vertically slatted blinds. The surroundings of the window are dark, but the window itself is bright. Sharp shadows can be seen on the window of a man's face, a pair of hands offering up a curved knife though the shadows are overlapping and slightly distorted. Through the gaps in the blinds, the man's face can be partially seen.

In a dark brick lined tunnel, a woman sits wrapped up in warm clothes playing the cello. She is surrounded by candles in jars on the ground and the light of the candles reflects off the black and white tiled floor. 4 people are watching, holding lanterns. At the back of the tunnel is an iron gate opening on to a street where a passerby has stopped to watch.

A black female figure with long braids stands in a dark blue skintight sci fi suit in front of shelves of books and box files. Her eyes are bright blue and slightly uncanny. On her her chest is a light up panel with the text "LeX" in bright blue. In the background is a banner saying "Edubot 450 LX" with the quote "All the knowledge of the WORLD available in the blink of a perfect robot eye"

“The ideas explored in the play seem to have infiltrated through the entire process of its creation, and there is an impressive rigour to the way the form expresses the content and the content plays with the form.”

Exeunt Magazine
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"Fantastically creative and inventive"

- Theatre & Tonic

"A multi-disciplinary piece of theatre which celebrates the creative spirit and the art of storytelling itself".

- Salterton Arts Review

"An extraordinary piece of theatre"

- The Stage

“The ideas explored in the play seem to have infiltrated through the entire process of its creation...”

- Exeunt Magazine

"A brilliantly constructed and performed piece of theatre."

Exeunt Magazine

We are Potential Difference, a theatre company that tells stories inspired by science, philosophy, and technology.

≍ We commission and produce new work that bridges science and the arts.

≍ We put writers, makers, and movers together with academics and specialists to inform and inspire each other’s practice.

≍We develop new technology to challenge theatre’s boundaries and to reach new audiences.

Coming up: Lunchtime Talk at Watershed, Bristol on 21 Feb

Artistic Director Russell Bender is giving a free talk at Watershed's Pervasive Media Studio about developing a new project with writer Sarah Golding, using head tracking technology and spatial audio: ‘The Invisible Friend’. 

Join in person or online via YouTube Live.‍

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