Acknowledgement of Country

Sandpit respectfully works across the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nations, as well as the Kaurna and Yugambeh peoples. We recognise and respect their continued cultural, spiritual and technological practices.

We also extend this to all First Nations peoples across the land known as Australia and pay respects to their Ancestors and Elders past and present.

As the very first storytellers and technologists, First Nations peoples possess invaluable knowledge and perspectives that are crucial to the work that we do across both the physical and digital realms.

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Ghosts, Toast and the Things Unsaid

What if we could hear characters’ unspoken thoughts in a theatre performance? We worked with Google’s Creative Lab in Sydney to create Ghosts, Toast and the Things Unsaid, an intimate digital theatre experience.

The performance, which premiered at the 2016 Adelaide Fringe Festival, featured mobile audio technology, allowing audience members to ‘tune in’ to the inner thoughts of two characters, Maude and Steve. Audience members inhabited the ghosts of the characters, and watched the action unfold in ghost costumes on a 360º set.

The result was a mix of live action (spoken by the actors on stage) and inner monologue (pre-records by the actors delivered through tiny speakers in the ghost costumes), provoking the audience to reflect on unspoken desires and resentments in relationships.