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Studio Marble is an Extended Reality theatre collective that specializes in the use of digital avatars as performers. They try to find the personal in uncanny digital interactions and aim to produce works that are relatable, joyous and get to the core of what it means to be human in non-human settings.
Welcome to the Gaybourhood (2025-)
Innovation:Lab (2025) | Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (2026) | Frascati Come Together (2026)|
Welcome to the Gaybourhood is an interactive Extended Reality theatre experience that explores queerness, living, and adulthood, all set within a physical dollhouse.
In Welcome to the Gaybourhood, the audience encounters a 10-centimeter-tall holographic spirit who invites you into a conversation about what “home” means to you. Together, you’ll journey through queer stories from both past and present, where “the house” plays a central role.
This experience invites you to explore how we are expected to relate to homes, norms, and civility, and whether the “adult” choices we make are truly our own.
A children’s show for adults, where we talk, craft, play with dolls, and question what it means to be the “perfect citizen.”
Supported by: Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Gemeente Utrecht, and Nederlands Filmfonds, Innovation:Lab
Language: NL/ENG
Duration 45-60 min
✍ Text & Performance: Noor Sanders
🎭 Director & 3D Visualization: Simic Over
🖌️ Installation & 3D Visualization: Benjamin Pompe
🎮 Creative Technologist: Nathan Marcus
🛋️ Decor & Production: Roos Groothuizen
Marble Looks Back (2024-)
Paardenkathedraal Theater Utrecht (2024) | Sickhouse Enschede (2024)
Marble Looks Back is an interactive XR installation in which a participant visits Marble, a projected hologram of a game character in Marble World.
Marble connects with the participant through conversations, interactions and touch in an existential conversation about the question of whether there can ever be an intimate relationship between a game character and physical person.
Marble ask whether they and the participant can be together, even though they live in different dimension and so much technology stand between them.
“Marble Looks Back” is about the grief that both parties feel when they discover that they will never be able to exist in each other’s world and the bitter question of whether friendships and relationships can survive the gap between (digital) dimensions.
Supported by: Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Innovation:Lab
Language: ENG
Duration 45-60 min
✍ Text & Performance: Simic Over
🎭 Installation & Director: Simic Over
🖌️ 3D Visualization: Benjamin Pompe
🎮 Creative Technologist: Nathan Marcus
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