Within Touching Distance
Zu-UK
(United Kingdom)
17 October 2025 | 10:30am — 5.45pm
18 October 2025 | 10:30am — 5.45pm
£15 - 10 (Concession)
Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow (Directions)
An unmissable experience: intimate, tender, and unlike anything you’ve encountered, this one-on-one encounter invites you into a world where touch, memory and sound tangle together.
Within Touching Distance takes one audience member at a time through a journey from childhood to adulthood and old age through the medium of a bedtime routine.
This is not theatre as spectacle — it’s theatre as encounter - to be lived through moment to moment. With XR technology and a deeply personal journey through life and care, Within Touching Distance will leave you altered. This is theatre that lives on your skin.
Limited slots. One audience member at a time. Repeat: limited slots!
Info
Please arrive 15 minutes before your slot to check in.
If you can no longer attend, please let us know as soon as possible by emailing lilian@takemesomewhere.co.uk
Access Notes
This performance is immersive and participatory, experienced by one audience member at a time, through a VR headset while lying on a bed.
Sensory Notes:
Virtual Reality
Audience Participation (VR)
Audience Interaction (physical touch)
There will be an opportunity to discuss consent and any concerns with the actor on arrival.
A break out space will be available for audiences post performance.
Language: English
Venue and Seating:
ARC at Glasgow University. Wheelchair accessible. Venue access information.
Seating: Audience members will be lying down in a bed. Wheelchair accessible modification available.
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Content Notes
Explicit exploration of death, dying and end of life care
Reference to intimacy and touch
Audience Interaction (physical touch)
Artist Bio
ZU-UK is a disabled-led and working class-led organisation with over two decades creating interactive experiences using performance, games, and technology.
ZU-UK is a multi-award-winning leader in participatory theatre & performance whose work spans multiple art forms, disciplines, formats and spaces to address issues of social justice, mental health and climate emergency. - from ringing all UK phone-boxes simultaneously in response to suicide rates to recruiting ghost-hunters in shopping-malls to investigate human rights and climate in supply chains.
Credits
Creative Team: Persis Jadé Maravala, Jorge Lopes Ramos, Ross Flight, Hayley Hill, Elisa Moriconi, Alex Peckham, Sneha Belkhale
Cast: Persis Jadé Maravala, Hayley Hill, Sarah Klvanova, Aitana Llorente, Thelma Sharma, Khadijah Islam
Production team: Jorge Lopes Ramos, Persis Jadé Maravala, Ross Flight, Alex Peckham, Hayley Hill, Sarah Klvanova, Aitana Llorente, Carlos Ziccarelli, Thelma Sharma, Khadijah Islam, Ana Gillespie, Carlos Eduardo Pires, Marnie Nash, Sel Ertas, Kesia Guillery, Sanjay Pandey.
With thanks to the University of Glasgow’s Immersive Experience Lab, the Advanced Research Centre (ARC) and XR Lab.
