South Africa, Aug. 28 -- A collaboration between Cape Town immersive studio Virtual Worlds Company and Los Angeles company Ferryman Collective, the virtual reality theatre production is performed inside VRChat, a social virtual reality platform.

The live play is set in Uncanny Alley, an original virtual universe created by South African artist and worldbuilder Rick Treweek, known in virtual reality as MetaRick.

Audiences become escaped detainees fleeing Adaptive Learning Industries, a corporation preparing to erase its citizens' memories.

Alongside a pair of professional actors playing 15 characters in real time, audience members must escape imprisonment, evade capture and ultimately decide whether to abandon Uncanny Alley or stay and ...