The Crystal Ball was an event that forecast the lives of the audience that attended. Presented as a sequence of one-to-one interactions, participants had their destiny revealed through professional consultations.
Experts set up stall to predict the future lives of the audience in a series of snapshots compiled on site and presented to each participant before they left as This Is Your Life To Come. A troupe of sequinned ballroom dancers greeted each guest and shadowed their journey from one prediction booth to the next. Working as a spectacle for onlookers and a fortune telling for participants, The crystal ball put ticket-holder's future in the picture.
It's Robert Wilson meets Mysic Meg. It's Pina Bausch at a Spiritualist Meeting. It's Miss High Leg Kick and Nostradamus at a Careers Fair... It's The Future.
Starring: Psychic Life Scientist Julia Laverne, Optometrist Rod Dale, Career Psychologist Julie Unite, Face Readers Maura Bright and Teresa Dane, Independent Financial Advisor Alan Dickinson-Quelch, Illustrator Robin Whitmore, with Dancers Miss High Leg Kick, Abigail Davies, Polly Wiltshire, Keiko Akamatsu, Helen Plewis, Valerie Renay, Sheila Ghelani, Choreographed by Maxine Doyle.