Night Night is the latest playful blending of puppetry and live stream digital theatre from Perth’s Last Great Hunt.

Here the artifice is freely announced as we see actors jogging on the spot while to side of them appears an image of them running in front of an otherworldly background – a fantasy version of Antarctica – as well as offering other cinematic sleights of hand.

Arielle Gray in Night Night. Photo ©

Night Night follows Pip (Arielle Gray), a scientist at the Antarctic station of a fictitious Scandinavian country seeking evidence regarding the origins of life.

Discovering an apparent rift in space and time at the end of an icy valley, she extracts a glowing ball which divides, half lodging itself in her cerebellum, while the rest becomes a diminutive, illuminated, line drawn human figure (manipulated by puppeteer and camera operator Tim Watts).

When outside forces mine the valley’s life giving materials, Pip is diagnosed with cerebral cancer and then the light of the universe suddenly blinks out. Pip rushes to the site, where the light leaves her skull and revives the universe.