Blinking into the light from the subterranean space where this apocalyptic headphone theatre show is staged, you’ll likely despair for the future or be very glad to be alive. Elisabeth Gunawan is Rose, an AI chatbot who we meet after the world has ended. She’s powered by memories from those who have died, including the woman who created her; we see and hear snatches of the woman’s life (meeting her husband, childhood dislocation, final goodbyes), but the audience influence how the story plays out. Using hand signs to vote on options on a big screen, they send Gunawan off down a chosen path.

The staging is ultra smart: box-like computer carcasses and redundant tech stack up and pull apart to variously become mirrors into the past, a jewel-like tiny piano and even a form of shadow theatre. But at its heart, loss and grief course through Gunawan’s affecting, technically complex performance in this disorienting meditation on the end of days. 

Stampin’ In The Graveyard, Summerhall, until 25 August, 12.15pm; Valeriia Poholsha.