The multimedia extravaganza that is Out Of This World, directed by Mark Murphy, has come to the Oxford Playhouse. Combining choreography, aerial movement, staged dialogue, immersive audio, music and object-mapped video projections, this is a technical feat like little I have seen before.

Recalling Kate Bush's ambitiously realised Before The Dawn and The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time for the sensurround performative interaction and stunning, shapeshifting video overlays, this piece tells the story of a woman in a coma whose fragmented consciousness is laid out in a cube-like geometric frame which sometimes transcended the box altogether into psychedelic infinity (and beyond). Objects fly up to the rafters while their digital ghosts assimilate into the LED fabric in a brilliant use of technology that combines jumbotron advertising innovation with the advent of VR and all its untapped potential.

Sometimes we see the wires but the way space and time is simulated is a wholly absorbing spectacle, especially with clever use of collapsing matrixes of grids and individuals physically walking on two axes at the same time. The sound revealed some limitation in binaural clarity, but it was put to impressive use when, for instance, a chilly, endless cavern opened up before you and the character. At times, the whole illusion was exposed with stark shadows and the venue's lighting itself was raised but this parade of smoke and mirrors remained a pleasure even with its façade exposed.

I did have reservations, but only for the plot: the protagonist's dilemma between a life lived without art and the musical expression she has to forego, Faustus-like, would be more affecting if her own glitterball-backed X-Factoresque emoting were replaced instead by something more truly poetic. Overall this was a sensational evening out, made all the better for the lack of knowing a thing about it prior to review - and quite possibly after.