Luminarium
Juggling Saves The World : A Solarpunk FableGenre: Physical Theatre/Circus
Duration: 60mins
Creators: Chris Murdoch, Ryan Mellors, Yuki Ueda
Light & Video Designer/Production Stage Manager: Cameron Fraser
Language: Non-verbal
Target Audience: All ages
Age Suitability: 4 and up
The world didn’t end in a bang—but in a slow, smoggy sigh. Centuries of pollution have left the planet scarred, and humanity now survives in scattered pockets, clinging to the remains of a livable environment.
Enter two workers from the Luminarium Revitalization Company: suit-clad specialists with a mission to breathe life back into the world, one dead facility at a time. Their latest assignment is a long-forgotten factory scheduled for retrofit. The task? Rip out outdated systems and install cutting-edge clean tech. Simple. Efficient. By the book.
But the job doesn’t go as planned.
As the workers settle in, things start to glitch—and so do they. A game here. A challenge there. Before long, they’re goofing off and rediscovering the joy of simply playing. And just when they improvise a new biotech solution catastrophe strikes... everything crashes. The lights go out. The mission fails. Silence.
Then—an unexpected glow. A light in the dark has been there all along. With curiosity (and a few more experiments), the workers make an astonishing discovery. One that may hold the key to a new future.
Luminarium is a wordless, visually captivating show that fuses juggling, physical comedy, and object manipulation into a hopeful solarpunk fable. Powered by laughter, teamwork, and the spark of rediscovery, it’s a playful reminder that the future might just be saved—not by brute force or better machines, but by imagination, care, and finding a bit of balance.