Stewart Laing, Scotland’s celebrated theatre director and designer, created a fully immersive experience for audience members, dressed in opulent Victorian costumes, in a mirrored 19th century reception room at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh.

The Salon Project offers audiences the opportunity to explore the past while imagining the future, to mirror the contrasts and paradoxes between the golden age of salon society and our own era of economic excess.

Artistic Director Luca Silvestrini takes everyday issues and subjects, with deep, witty analysis, choreographing his own very idiosyncratic and distinctive dance theatre. Driving the approach is a desire to connect theatrical experience with the life stories of participants – amateur or professional – and audiences. The result is work of humour, pathos and invention that reflects the integrity and absurdity of its ingredients.

“Human connection on virtual speed, exhilarating and funny ….his best creation to date.” Judith Mackrell. The Guardian ★★★★

Hibrow’s production team is the only film crew ever to have been given permission to film inside the house. Shot in different rooms with no live audience the film takes on the point of view of a witness to the drama, without the strictures of a staging platform.

Celebrated Indian author and musician Amit Chadhuri looks back on his past: as a child in India learning to sing traditional classical ragas and as a young man studying in London, enjoying a love affair with Western pop harmonies.

The film explores his awakening to the similarities that can be found amidst the clash of these two vibrantly contrasting cultures. With footage captured in India and London, the film features exclusive live performances from Amit and his band, recorded at King’s Place, London.