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Science in the City 2022

Pre-Festival Event 6

The Mirror Trap

Area Name: Expand your Horizons

Institute/Department/Organisation: Simon Watt

Type of event: Performing Arts

Age Suitability: 14+

Digital Platform: Zoom 

Date: Tuesday, 17th November

Time: 19:30

Physicist Paul Gato had been through a lot. His colleagues called the police, concerned for his safety. His neighbors reported loud bangs and strange sounds coming from his flat. When they finally battered down the door, they found some sort of home-made gun, two mirrors, a vial of LSD and a diary full of ramblings and Feynman diagrams, but Paul had disappeared. In his diary, Gato wrote that the most dangerous thing in the world was to be ‘trapped between mirrors’. Gato had lost his mind but perhaps found something else. Dare you take part in his final experiment?

The Mirror Trap is a short headphone play/experience/installation/horror story about psychology and quantum physics. Previous audience members have described it as “weird”, “trippy”, “deeply unsettling” and “terribly sad”. It is quite meditative in tone, so don’t expect any jump scares. Some may find some of the content triggering.

After the show, there will be a discussion with its creator, Simon Watt, quantum physicist Prof. André Xuereb and cognitive scientist Marthese Borg.

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Science in the City is part of the European Researchers’ Night, an EU-wide celebration. It has been funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (under grant agreement No 101061120), and a number of corporate sponsors. It is recognised as a Festival by Europe for Festivals and Festivals for Europe (EFFE).

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