Cripping Up

Amy Crighton / Meg Fozzard / United Kingdom

Cripping Up is an interactive VR experience that invites the audience to embody Meg, a wheelchair user, to make a simple journey. They are confronted with the ableist barriers that surround Meg everyday as she navigates her life.

Cripping Up is an interactive VR experience that invites the audience to embody Meg Fozzard, a wheelchair user, making what would be a simple journey for someone able bodied, but for Meg feels like an odyssey. They will experience the ableist barriers Meg contends with every day which will help them to recognise the ableism in their own actions and reflect on how they can do better. We want to challenge the notion of VR as an empathy machine, by reminding the user that they, unlike Meg, are able to walk away.

Amy Crighton

Director

Biography

Amy Crighton is a theatre director and dramaturg now moving into XR with a particular focus on developing new work in conjunction with writers and working with new technologies. Inspired by the storytelling methods of video games, Amy began to integrate technology in their theatre work with their show CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER which utilised silent disco headphones, and since she has been pursuing the ways in which we might use technology to create intimacy between audiences and performers.

Meg Fozzard

Producer

Biography

Meg Fozzard is a disabled freelance producer and journalist. Her career as a producer began back in 2018 when she studied Creative Producing for Digital Platforms at the National Film and Television School. There, she learnt how to produce for AR, VR, podcasts, smart home devices and social media. She graduated in February 2019 and became disabled in April 2019, drastically altering her career.