The Whale

The Whale is an immersive reimagining of Moby Dick designed for live audiences, brought to life by Jack Hardiker-Bresson (Office of Everyone) and Sharon Clark (Raucous). As one of 9 UK projects awarded Expand funding from Immersive Arts, The Whale will launch at the end of 2025.

This innovative project cultivates dynamic relationships between digital projection, physical environments, and spatial creative captioning. This pioneering form of spatial creative captioning, offers new ways for deaf and hearing-impaired audiences to engage with immersive narratives that are not tethered to a stage or an interpreter. Led by Ben Glover, the captioning is dynamic, responding to and emanating from the performer or world.

Performances are inherently relaxed, with audiences encouraged to move around the environment and performers. With a blend of expansive 180° projection, dynamic physical environments, spatial sound, and live actors, it creates a collective experience that could be seen as a more communal form of virtual reality.