We Have No Need Of Other Worlds (We Need Mirrors) ★★★★

We Have No Need of Other Worlds (We Need Mirrors) is a cumbersome title for a clean, cool show.

It’s not hard to see why creator Graham Sack chose it. The title is quoted from Stanisław Lem’s science fiction novel Solaris, a seminal and thrice-filmed work that explores how humans seek understanding of themselves by projecting their psyches onto the universe only to eventually learn that what they find are only reflections of their own unresolved issues. That profound notion certainly applies here, but what Sack has created with technical collaborator LedPulse is a truly innovative theatrical experience that deserves its own original name.

The show uses LedPulse’s DragonO Volumetric LED Display, a thinking structure that responds to its environment and arranges thousands of LED lights in a three-dimensional matrix. For children of the ‘70s and ‘80s, DragonO feels like being inside a life-sized Lite-Brite, and it’s dazzling. As Sack combs through memories of his father’s last night — internally through his own recollections, and externally through a box of his father’s journals from 1967 — the lights conjure literal images — a hospital bed, ocean waves — or visual interpretations — of emotions, the passing of time, even the final trip to the great beyond.