We’re opening our home theater season at the Dixon with My Strange Darling—a bold, surreal new creation that brings everything you love about LED into a fresh, immersive experience.

Conceived and directed by Lauren Edson and Andrew Stensaas, My Strange Darling explores the tension between our accelerating digital world and the quiet, persistent human yearning beneath it. At the center of the work is a puppet crafted by Boise artist-Jessica Nebekar. Stunning and deeply expressive, it blurs the line between the real and the imagined.

The work draws from the psychological concept of the uncanny valley—a term coined by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in 1970 to describe the discomfort people feel when encountering objects that are nearly, but not fully, human. The tension in that “valley” mirrors the emotional dissonance at the heart of our story: the fine line between the authentic and the artificial, the creator and the created, the connected and the alone.

Join us for a striking, timely performance that reflects on the beauty, complexity, and quiet ache of the digital age.