Deptford Storehouse

In 1983, the year the internet was created, a doomsday cult of nerds decided to create a repository for every web page ever created. These would be printed out in binary, put into bound editions, and then fed to a weird network of fluffy fungi, with the understanding that on January 1 2025 some sort of rapture would be achieved out of all this data. Unfortunately it didn’t happen – a non event described as ‘the epic fail’ – possibly because the system was being poisoned by the toxic levels of fake news now contaminating the web. But maybe YOU can help..? As far as I can make out from actually having seen it, that's the basic premise behind new immersive theatre company Sage & Jester’s inaugural show Storehouse, which I think is worth sharing because beyond ‘it’s an immersive theatre show’ it was pretty unclear what was actually involved on the basis of the advance publicity. Unfortunately Storehouse is also absolute nonsense, a pretty but torpid vanity project that’s the brainchild of businesswoman Liana Patarkatsishvili, who I assume also bankrolled this expensive show, staged in a gargantuan Deptford warehouse.  Patarkatsishvili – daughter of the late Georgian billionaire and media mogul Badri Patarkatsishvili – is clearly concerned with ‘misinformation’: last year she funded an art installation in Edinburgh called Illuminated Lies on the same subject. Which is fine but simply lobbing money at an idea you care about doesn’t inherently make for great art, even with...