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"Nature Exposed to Our Line of Questioning": Tomorrow's Child as Quantum Theatre

This article evaluates Ghost River Theatre’s Tomorrow’s Child through theories of subjectivity and reality founded on early quantum mechanics. When scientists first faced uncertainty, discontinuity, granularity of space, and other phenomena that affronted Newtonian and Kantian assumptions, they developed an approach to scientific discovery that respected an unassailable and primary subjectivity yet maintained a realism open to renegotiation. By blinding its spectators, Ghost River Theatre’s Tomorrow’s Child emphasizes the subjective orientation of basic cognition. Spectators must choose where to listen, an activity highlighted by their central spatial location. Yet the sounds from other possible orientations linger, reminding spectators of an amorphous, inaccessible, but actual and shared reality outside their orientation. When our orientations participate in that underlying world, Tomorrow’s Child shows us how our truths are both ours and participants in a shared world. Whether or not we agree with the charges, recent articles published by the Atlantic, New York Times, BBC, and other organizations have dubbed president Trump the first postmodern president. If, as many commentators and philosophers have suggested, postmodernism was influenced by quantum theory, then a re-examination of quantum theory helps us develop a framework to discuss subjectivity and personal truth without absconding from a shared reality.